Just want to bump this once more.

Michelle, I know you're super busy and I'm just throwing this out there for the entire community to give it a little more "show time" -- certainly not something I'm asking you to take on! I think this poster best conveyed what I'm looking for:

http://drupal.org/node/164830

I'm getting some rumblings from my users that they are less apt to even use my site because of lack of all recent forum activity. "Active forum topics" is nice, but obviously it doesn't go to the recent comment, but just the topic itself.

I've briefly attempted views fusion, but I got a big ugly error.

Also, here's an interesting comment: http://drupal.org/node/207060#comment-773938 Know anything about nodeforum?

Thanks,
Kris