I think i figured out the bug. I uninstalled the forum, reinstalled it and everything worked. I added forums one at a time and each time checked the edit property with no issues. I created a new forum and checked off the "allow polls" and then that forum editing broke with the error I described previously. Anything with polls enabled breaks.
I changed all records back to zero with sql studio using
Update
Forum_Forums
set
AllowPolls = 0
This did not reverse the issue though. The other difference I saw in there between the forums that didnt work vs the ones that do is the ForumType was set to 3 on the broken forums, the good ones were zero. I set them to zero and still get exceptions. I will post the exceptions below.
Thanks