Forum Topics Won't Show in Forums

I made the decision to switch to drupal forums 'cause the chance to build customized content types is very exciting.

Since I installed the forum on my existing installation it has been nothing but trouble. In the beginning everything was fine, that is until I finished creating my first content type. As soon as I finished it and hit done it made it so my site would not show forum topics within the forum lists.

The nodes do exists and can be accessed directly, but I can't seem to get them to show in the forum list. I have gone through about 20 threads on this site all relating to this issue, starting from version 4.x up to current 6.x. Some were able to fix their issues and others still unresolved.

Nonetheless, I can't seem to fix it. Here is what I have done so far:

Tried making any necessary database changes that were suggested in other threads.
Completely uninstalled forum, Disable then click Uninstall, then reinstalled

Can anyone help? This a live site that I am trying to relaunch, I took it down to make this change!

I can and will provide access to site if need be. Following is values from some of my database tables

vocabulary:
|4| Forums| NULL| 0| 1| 0| 0| 0| forum| -10|

variable:
|forum_nav_vocabulary| s:1:"4";|

term_data:
all terms for forum have a vid of 4

node_type:
|forum| Forum topic| forum| A forum topic is the initial post to a ne...| 1| Subject| 1| Body| 0| |0| 0| 1| forum|

vocabulary_node_types:
|4| forum|

Additonally I can see that the nodes I create are not making it into the table "forum". What would cause this?