And the conflicting information is what? There is none.
You can set cookie domains to something other than blank.
Everything in our FAQ stat that the cookie settings need to be IDENTICAL between the forum and photopost. You can use other cookie prefix's other than bb etc
Your cookie settings are fine and I am logged in both products when I login.
Now you have not followed the FAQ in relation to editing the
VB templates to take care of the relative paths yet