LB33, we used to have an old Latest Topic Posts module that took people to the first post of the thread and most folks around here couldn't stand it. Then we had one that showed individual posts regardless of the thread and most people couldn't stand it either. What we needed was one that features links to both the first post and the last post but none existed for Joomla running SMF forums (still doesn't).
I started developing one sometime back but due to lack of time and its relative unimportance compared to some other things around here, I never got it completed. However, now though it is fairly certain we won't be using SMF much longer but will rather be moving to phpBB3 due to SMF licensing issues.
So rather than restarting work on the SMF module I was building, I would prefer to save that effort for finding or creating a nice phpBB3 module that will do all of what we want. phpBB3 is as good or better than even what SMF2 will be. It will be quite different in some ways from what we are used to though so my focus will be on making the transition as painless as possible. Naturally, having a nice recent topics module will be a big part of that.