[voteforbird]

So, I solved the SHOWTHREAD problem. I'm just amazing like that. It took me a couple hours to track down all the right variables and templates, too.

• Create a new template called 'spacer_open_showthread' with the following content:

  <!-- open content container -->
  <if condition="$show['old_explorer']">
  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="540" align="center"><tr><td class="page" style="padding:0px $stylevar[spacersize]px 0px $stylevar[spacersize]px">
  <else />
  <div align="center">
  <div class="page" style="width:540px; text-align:$stylevar[left]">
  <div style="padding:0px $stylevar[spacersize]px 0px $stylevar[spacersize]px">
  </if>

  …replacing both instances of 540 with your desired width of the postbits
  
• Add the following line in showthread.php:

  'spacer_open_showthread',

  below

  'editor_jsoptions_size',

• Change all instances of $spacer_open to $spacer_open_showthread in templates postbit_wrapper, SHOWTHREAD and showthread_list
  
• Add the appropriate column code to SHOWTHREAD

Tada! For a live example, please see http://www.volconvo.com/forums/

Enjoy