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I strongly suspect that Google has the algo fixed to give forums less weight in the PR calculation - so don't hold your breath about the PR increase.
As for the stats - 725 hits=hits not users. If phpbb gives live reporting of the indexing hack then you'll see precisely how they're behaving.
With vBulletin you can see them indexing in real-time - mulitple IPs in different areas at the same time.
If you want to save on your bandwidth during indexing then simply use the robots.txt file to close down the images directories for the bots.
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