vBulletin IMO is not better. I have tested practically all the forum systems available offline, and vBulletin has the most confusing interface out of all of the 3 big names (phpBB, IVP and vBulletin).

A CMS to look out for will be appearing soon at

http://logicfury.com

This does however look to be similar to phpNuke.

-Evighet