Yeah i did see that and tried it, it gave me the same look lol

Did you replace both of the templates in all your styles?

Yeah i did, well only in 1 style cause thats the only style i am really using atm, the others are just testers!!

Hmm, that's odd. Are you absolutely sure you're using exactly that style and not just a duplicate of it or something? And that you definitely saved both templates? Try replacing it in all your styles...

Yeah definiatley m8....I am only using the MNS 7 style thats the only 1 ticked in the style manager and thats the only 1 i have edited

Okay, go to your template manager and look at the custom_unreadnews template. Compare it to the alternate template in the first post. Are they the exact same?

Yes m8, there exactly the same...Just checked it now

Its working now....I just rebuilt all styles and its now showing as it should be...thanks for taking the time to help me on this! :)

Okay, that's good. Let me know if you have any other problems.

Thats a great hack and works fine once I followed your php4 instructions.

What I am missing is that it checks if the user has reading rights of those forums and if not, not showing the news headline. I think it can be done by manually add all usergroups who can read that forum with conditions but it could be more handy.

Since I am quite bad in coding, I also ask if someone can provide the condition that does this. Thanks.