phpBB groups will be synchronized with Joomla 1.6 groups. We are already experimenting with this. We has serious approach for the bridge, we won't leave our customers, we strive to organize ourselves as provider of hight-end Joomla! extensions and we will have the bridge for 1.6 with all current ...

if that is the case is it possible to just move the contents of the Joomla directory to the root directory and things won't break?

i don't want to move the files and break the site as I've already installed a lot of components

... (you can also setup 'Auto-approve phpBB friends' setting). But JS doesn't have ability to synch its friends actions, so deleting friend in JS won't delete friend in phpBB. There is a trick how to force JS to do it, but it requires time :( Next problem is phpBB signature: impossible to make ...