Not sure if this should be strictly classified as a bug, its more cosmetic really.
The welcome message created by setup.asp when using sqlserver has a post date of 02/15/2001 (this is also present in the Access DB supplied with the archives)
When installing a forum for the first time this message at first is not visible due to the default "Show last 30 Days" topics view.
Perhaps change the inc_create_forum_???.asp files to use the current date rather than a hard coded date, or if hard-coded perhaps use a date well into the future ?
Probly right Nathan, I suggested the inc_create files becuase thats where its currently created for mysql and sqlserver setups. Access obviously already contains the message in the DB when the user downloads it.