Thanks for your help, I'm afraid after reading Syphers reply I deleted the PHPBB forum, replaced it with a db I made on phpmyadmin as i followed along the instructions from w3schools.com, I am serious about learning php/mysql but as i'm currently unemployed (hence i can dedicate so much time to my website) I certainly cant afford any courses at the moment.
My other concern would be that as i'm accustomed to creating webpages through WYSIWYG programs in a drag and drop manner, it could be argued i'm not 100% on HTML either, but now i find myself with a well presented webpage which i never thought possible and php/mysql seems the logical next hurdle to jump!