thanks guys for the help! there is only 1 final question (please see bottom of message)
it actually wasnt setting things up that was confusing. it was really on kuena's end. so basically i had to create a new category & group from within groupjive for every single category that i wanted to show in the kuena forum if i wanted it to be only available to certain cb/cbsubs users. so i had to figure that out & determine that i could not use kuena to create any categories unless they were going to be set to public or "registered" users. in my case "registed" users didnt do any good because i wanted to limit it to not only registered, but to certain cbsubs plan members.
anyway hopefully this will help anyone else reading this. quick note to them:)
1. if you want to limit your forum to cbsubs users you must create a group & category for each from within groupjive & not kuena (the category will automatically show in kuena after creating it in groupjive).
lastly my question: i am quite concerned with the seo structure of the kuena forum. i have set the "forum" menu item (automatically created) to no index,no follow however when viewing my page source it still says index,follow. i am just concerned that there will be tons of duplicate page meta tags & mess up my seo. could you shed your light on this?
i have done the following: (is this correct?)
1. set the "forum" menu item to no index,no follow
2. placed this in my robots.txt file Disallow: /forum/
3. inside the view.php file i changed all index,follow to noindex,nofollow located at this directory: libraries/kunena/view.php
thank you kindly