I've just started adding a forum to my website, and I'm using PHPBB. Dreamhost has one click installation of it, and there's a ton of mods and other enhancements available online. I agree that there's nothing worse than an empty forum (which mine is at the moment) so if you're just starting a site you might want to develop your traffic first.
Whatever you use, make sure that they offer a good system for preventing spam posts and/or registrations. I had a problem with that and have added a couple of simple changes--like making new members verify their email address. I still get a few spambots registering every day, but since they don't use real emails they can't post and its easy to go through and delete them.
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