I just found it under the original skin. I switched to “blue,” but it’s strange how front-page.php stays. Thanks anyway, though. Let me know if there’s more about front-page.php other than the code inside it, like the option to move it to my template folder.
bbPress will use the stock files for any template file not in your template folder. So, if you have a folder called bb-templates/custom, you could conceivably have just one file in there (say front-page.php) and then that file would override the stock files, but all other files would be used from the stock template.
*I think* – that’s how it used to work anyway.