[ldma]

Ok, well thanks for your sage wisdom both of you.

Were I to answer some poor soul in the same situation as I was, perhaps I would first suggest that they took at look at the style's stylevars located in Style manager. I would then suggest they took a good look at and play with the forum width, outer-border width and the spacer size, all of which were causing the narrowness of the style.
Now there is adequate space for both my right-hand column and forum index.

Maybe that perhaps would be too much for a VBulletin templates help forum non?

...and er..thanks also to the gentleman who told me it would be extremely difficult and to paypal him $25 first.