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@Mattlay-

As he has not been active on these forums for over a month, I doubt you’ll get a reply from Terryjsmith.

But, to answer this question:

I am curious if anyone knows if bbpress and BP are working to do this somehow by default. I am sure they are working on a lot of things but like I said this seems rather important from a users perspective.

You should view theBuddyPress roadmap. You can see that for BP v1.1, better integration support is one of the goals.