As I think I mentioned, I wrote over 100 rewrite rules when I removed vBSEO from our forums.

.. and nothing is "simple" if you don't understand the basics of what you are doing. That is why you should "get up to speed" on a test forum.

You can't hire me BTW, I'm way too expensive ... sorry. Plus, I just went through 40 hours + of misery decommissioning vBSEO.. and I can tell you it was the least "fun work" I've done in a very long time.

I am very comfortable with mod_rewrite, and I still did a lot of testing on a test forum... I do not recommend that you do mod_rewrite work on a live forum unless you are very skillful at it.