Oh LghtWolf I totally feel your pain. I had a fond love for Boonex until I realized that making it extensive was NOT a possibility. The software DOES work right out the box as long as you don't want to make it your own.

The crazy thing about me is that I never wanted anyone to work on my site for free, I always layed an offer out on the table but for some reason or another people are more interested in selling a darn module. And I have bought my fair share of modules so buying isn't an issue. see more I just feel like the basic functionality of any type of script should work right out the gate. Dolphin has been at this for 10 years, whats the problem?I as well, have met some pretty cool people, (not many) but DosDawg and Dolphin_Jay are one of those people, along with Houston Lively and JasonVan, who I would love to sit down with and just chit chat about SEO and web building. They have taught me alot. I think that I have gotten all that I'm going to get out of Dolphin.
I'll tell you one thing that probably worked against me during my time at Boonex, the fact that I'm a female! This site is dominated by males who think they know EVERY THING but know absolutely nothing. (some males) I've had to snap off on a couple of them a few times.

I actually have a little knowledge pertaining Joomla, I've worked with it a couple of times. So if you just so happen to wonder over to the other side. Give me a holler. I've given Boonex way more than enough of my time and money. I think me finding out that I couldn't swap out my media player because it's a ray media player and it's hard coded into the script is what made me throw the towel in. Not worth my time.