[Lynne]

If you want the exclusion of a forum then simply say "$this->forum['forumid']!=xx" where xx is the forum to exclude.

If should be easy to take the post number and divide by the posts per page and if the remainder is 1 then it is the first post on the page (I can't remember the php for that since I never use it, but you can find it in the php manual). Just add that calculation to the conditional and it should work fine.