Okay - I figured out that it has to do with the exclusions portion of the code. $cat_exclusions = '522,530'; Basically you have to exclude a category in order for this to work. You just can't COMMENT the code or remove it. As soon as I excluded a few categories (which I decided that I needed to anyhow) it worked just fine.
My next problem pertains to the header bar which appears to only extend as far as the first column. See attached photo: neosmut001 I thought I read something regarding this issue, so I'll scan a few posts back and see.
**** UPDATE *****
This fixed the short header bar....
Product: vBadvanced CMPS Templates
Template: adv_portal_module_shell
Find:
Code:
<td class="tcat" colspan="$mods[colspan]">
Replace with:
Code:
<td class="tcat" colspan="6">
Note: Becuase I'm using the module in the center, I used '6' for the colspan to match the total columns of another center module that has 6 columns.