The style itself shouldn't have any effect on that. Are you sure you have announcements active? If so, are they active for the forum you're looking at. I'd say to get technical support from vBulletin if it's still not working.

how would i upgrade this ?

If you haven't made any modifications at all to your style, you could just delete your current Kirsch style and upload this new one. If you have made modifications, upload this style as a seperate style, and then just add in your old information. Nothing was copy/pasted from the old styles into this new style as that's sort of against the purpose. It's a lot easier than it sounds.

thanks Yarub. Will give it a try

I merged it with the previous version (VB 3.6 beta 3) and it seems like it works.
I haven't seen any errors (yet).

Glad to hear it. =D There are very few differences between the two styles, but I figured that it's bestter to have a clean style than to have a "fixer-upper" down the road.

this is probably a newbie question but why do i keep getting a "thumb.adb" error when trying to upload to my server. it doesnt happen all the time, just with some styles.

Nice, cool skin. I wished there was a modern (Techy) version of this.

I know that my style has a thumb in it, but I'm not sure why it'd effect your upload. How are you uploading your files? I think the reason it might be doing that is because of the type of uploading you're using. To be honest, I doubt I'll be able to help ya, but let me know how you upload your files and with what application if applicable. I might be able to help ya out.

Your included PSDs only have one button, one status icon, and so forth. I'd like a version for a black background, but I can't make one with just a few example PSDs.