i tried that the first time, and ended up with a blank page when the forums where accessed, so i took it out and the forums are back working again. i just think it was in the wrong place in the template, it was right near dst_correction code on the other template so i added it back to there and that's when it stopped allowing anyone to access the forum. i've just been manually running the tasks for the last 6 months, and just now started to dig into why it's been doing it.

Perhaps post the template with your added in $cronimage code and we can see what you did wrong. Mine is right around the copyright notice, which I don't see in yours, and within the same form that the copyright notice is contained in. I'm not sure if it has to be within that form, but it might be a good idea to try. Do you have the copyright notice shown in another template? Perhaps that would be a good place to add it.

to be honest i'm just the other half of the admin team and i'm not that great with the stuff, just trying to help out and get something done about stuff not working. the copyright is in there "Powered by vBulletin? Version 3.6.8
Copyright ?2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd." which is where <td class="headlinks" background="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/footer_bottom_teal.gif"><a href="http://www.vbulletin.com" target="_blank">$vbphrase[powered_by_vbulletin]</a> </td>
<td background="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/footer_bottom_teal.gif" class="headlinks"><div align="right">
comes into the code i think.

Ah ha! It's all in one line in the code, so I missed it. This is what is in my footer template around there. Take a look at your template and you should be able to add it also (probably add it in the same td tag since it's something that never actually gets printed on the site - hopefully it doesn't bring your site down this time!):

only one way to find out, i'll just have to test it to see. i didn't write/add any of the coding for the template, i just know where to find them in the acp. i've got some other small template issues as well with alignments of the "what's going on box" but that's another day.