Ok, it was just a tad annoying, cos I've got one book who specifically says it should be considered as vectors, and yet anotherone who says the total opposite.
Magnitude is a scalar, i know that - but "direction is a vector", true enough.
But can you consider vector-components forces? Technically, they DO have a direction and they certainly have a "length", absolute value or magnitude, whatever you choose to call it. This should make them forces, right? But then you could make vector-components of vector-components and it would all be a total mess...