The forums are a subdomain of HanginOutForums.

Yes. We have WHM/CPanel on our new VPS. Host is HostMonster.

HanginOutForums.org is the main site, and is an addon to cybatrons.com/org.

The subdomain forums.hanginoutforums.org is where the forums are located.

We have access to DNS tools in our WHM and CPanel.

I'm starting to think I'm going to have to set up the HanginOutForums.org services on their own account in the WHM. It's what I did at Linode and we didn't have these problems. It also gave each site it's own CPanel. I'm starting to think it would be my best option.

If I did that, HanginOutForums.org no longer be a addon domain, and maybe things would go back to functioning more like they did on our Linode VPS.

Ok, I've got a better idea of what you're doing now.

You could do it with three distinct accounts, but I do have a similar setup myself that works all under a single account. It seems I've done that using subdomains and addons

So the main account has accountdomain.com with the document root /home/account/public_html

Then I have subdomains for that setup outside of public_html:
other1.accountdomain.com -> /home/account/other1/www
other2.accountdomain.com -> /home/account/other2/www

I don't use those subdomains though - I have the relevant domains setup as addon domains:
other1.com -> /home/account/other1/www
other2.com -> /home/account/other2/www

I think if you setup hangingoutforums.org and forums.hangingoutforums.org in that way (pointing to whatever the appropriate directories are), then www.hangingoutforums.org will be handled by cPanel, and you can alias the www.forums.etc version to the non-www version (either using cPanel or setting up a CNAME DNS record), and it should all do what you want.

I don't know if I've explained that very well - let me know if not.

I think I got where you're coming from on it.

Right now we're on hold until I hear back from some of the members having access issues.

I appreciate the help. If you don't mind, I'd like to make a copy of your post and save it to my computer in my Site Help Docs folder I have on my flash drive. I'll just do a copy and paste into a text document and save. Okay?

*shrug* Sure.

Thanks. I don't like to copy anything without a person's permission. Even if it's just for me. :)