i believe you'll find 3 files in your root to handle that redirect.. (if you saved them)..
by 'root' i man you forum root, where ubbthreads.php and index.php are..
those 3 files would need to be modified to do something like:
<?php
header('Location: http://yourforums.com/path/to/forums/');
?>
then any incoming link in the old style, will redirect to the root of your NEW forums..