Hi - I realise that, I've tried it already and it doesn't work.
I replaced it with that mess of ifs and elses to see if I could at least get the images to appear the long way around, but it's a no go.

I'm not au fait enough with vBulletin to know whether this is on-target or not, but it seems like the header template has no way of telling what $forum[forumid] is even supposed to be and where it comes from ...

Oh I didn't know you were trying to put this in the header template. No I don't think you can do that without some kind of hack.

Thanks,
Mat

Damn :(
Based on Reeve of Shinra's posts above I thought that's what he was aiming at.

No per-forum headers for me yet then I guess!

Thanks to a helpful soul on the vBulletin.com forums - to achieve this you should use $foruminfo[forumid] instead of $forum[forumid]

:)