Let me give you some tips:
You have way too many forums for a site just starting out. Condense some and don't make people scroll forever though a list of empty forums. Some of those forums on the bottom will never get used the way you're currently laid out. Split out the forums after you have some content; the discussions will show you where to make the splits, but condense down for now.
Don't make people register just to read and lurk. They won't. And they won't post if they don't see something interesting to reply to.
Search engines can't register. Your content will never see the light of google or yahoo if it is register to read.
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