let me see if i understand this, if i install it i can use all of the $variables on on pages other than my board

most of them, yes...

you can use

$header
$footer
$gobutton
$bburl
$bbuserinfo[]
{replacements}

And probbly a few mor i can not recall at this time.

Is there a way to make the page use one style (other than the default one), and override user's preference?

Try adding this:

if ((!isset($styleid) or $styleid=="") {
$styleid="$setstyleid";
}

after:

$templatesused='$template';

And this:

// set this to the custom style of the page
$setstyleid = "1";

after:

// Edit this line with the full _path_ to your vBulletin global.php file (not /admin/global.php!!!)
$path = "/path/to/globals/";

Parse error on the line with
if ((!isset($styleid) or $styleid=="") {

I hate to be a nag, but should I assume that this is currently not possible to force a style on a page?

I look into it, and add a few more things when i release version 2 (coming after loo-portal). For now you can just link the page like so:

www.yoursite.com/page.php?styleid=*number of style id here*

Hmmm. I will have to wait I guess. I do not allow changing of styles by members. Different areas change styles by default. So this does not seem to work for me.

I am having a problem, it seems that all of a suddent the access masks on this stopped working because all pages that I have that say no to guests are still viewable by guests :( Any ideas of what could be causing this?