Okay, I uninstalled TWTCOmmish's Shoutbox and installed the other one that is recommended on the first message. It worked flawlessly. So I guess I will forgo the advnced features of TWTCommish's hack until you guys figure out how to implement here. Thanks.

That's really weird... Editing the newreply.php and newthread.php files shouldn't cause anything like on those pages. Does it fix the problem if you remove the changes to those 2 files?

Brahm - Ok, I was able to check out the TWTCommish's shoutbox and get it to work with myvbindex. Just install the hack exactly as you normally would, except at the part where it tells you to place the code in your forums index.php, instead place it at the bottom of your myvbindex.php file right above:

$getbgrow=getrowcolor();
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('index')."\");");

Also be sure to leave out the bottom part where it has:
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('forumhome')."\");" );

Then you would replace the content of the forumhome_shoutbox template with the content in the text file attached.

You will probably want to also edit your shoutbox_postshout template and remove the / before shoutbox.php on the 3rd line so the form will be pointing to the right place. ;)

That should be it. :)

Thanks! I will check this out in a little bit. If this works okay, you may want to stick iton your first posthere.

I had done everything you suggested before except comeupwith a different "forumhome_shoutbox" so I can't wait to try this.

How do I costomize this to make it an actual site? I want to add affiliates, etc. How do I do that, and is it easier to do that in vbportal?

Zalbard - Do you mean instead of just using it as a homepage, having a portal where say something like the left bar will be on every page? I just moved to a new server so the DNS may not have updated yet, but if you go to my site (http://plurplanet.com) you can see an example of what I mean. I use a slightly modified version for my homepage, then if you click a link on the top navbar there, all the info in the left bar will appear on every page except for the forums and calendar. If you're trying to do something like I've done on my site, it's not that hard to do. It does require a little work, but I can try and explain to you how to do it.

Do I need to add a $the_shoutbox on the Myvbindex.php page?

Hehe... I guess that would probably help. ;)
You would put it in there where you'd like it just as the other variables are. It should look exactly the way the other 'boxes' do, except you'll probably want to change the 'title' since it will probably wrap around to a second line and look a little funny.

Yes PlurPlanet, thats exactly what I need!

Problem.
I replaced my forum from http://forum.mydomen.com to the http://mydomen.com/forum - just copied all files into other folder on the same server. And everythings works fine, except News - News is not showing in center of main page - what is problem? I changed all links in AdminCP and myvbindex.php...
Maybe I forgot something else?
News shows like usual threads in right panel...