This hack was almost what I wanted... Unfortunately it displays the separator after the stickies even if there are NO normal threads to display, which is not quite the look I wanted
I did a manual change to the FORUMDISPLAY template as follows...
before...
after...
Code:
$threadbits_sticky
<if condition="$totalthreads>0">
<tr><td class="thead" colspan="7"> </td></tr>
</if>
Seems to do what I needed - Does this make sense? Might be worth adding the if condition (as as option) to the hack ;-)