Thanks for clearing the up, Josh. I don't care too much about points (there is always someone with more free time to be posting), but you're probably right about that for some it may be an attractive way to lure more forum writers.
And yeah, the old weighting of points was weird. I think that it was based on activity...so creating a thread would be 5 points, a reply would be 10, but would make the original message go up to 21, and so on...inflating the "value" of the message that was replied to most. Kind of weird.