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Success! Thank you, everyone!

Here’s what I did, following mercime’s advice.

1. Created a new page template page-home-tempate.php in the root of my child theme, with content

<?php

/*

Template Name: Home Page

*/

?>

<?php locate_template( array( 'forums/index.php' ), true ); ?>

2. Created a new page in WPMU, called it ‘Home’, using that new page template.

3. Set that as my front page in Settings–>Reading

4. Deleted the Forums navigation item from header.php in my childtheme

5. YAY!