[harmor19]

I informed Princeton and told him that the hack on this thread and the hack on another thread are coded exactly the same way. The only difference between these two is that this one fetches 5 rows and the other gets 10.

As people already stated, This hack is horribly coded which means the other one is equally if not worse. I say it's worse because it has to get 10 rows as opposed to 5.
You may also experience conflict if you installed the two hacks or had another other plugin in "forum_start" hook where you use $test as your output variable.
What I mean by that is that you use $test on the "forumhome" template.

I tried to privately deal with this to lessen the chances of hurting someone's creditably but I guess I'm not important enough for someone to read my private message.