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What I would have done is make use of two different templates so you would have:

forumhome_ads:

<table border="0">
	<tr>
		<th>Title</th>
		<th>Username</th>
	</tr>
	$adsbits
</table>

and forumhome_ads_bits:

	<tr>
		<td>
			<a href="vbfclassifieds.php?do=showad&adid=$row[id]">
				$row[title]
			</a>
                </td>  
                <td>
                    <a href="/member.php?u=$row[userid]">
                        $row[username] 
                    </a>
                </td>
            </tr>

Then your PHP:

PHP Code:

$result = $db->query_read("SELECT vbfclassifieds_ads.title, vbfclassifieds_ads.userid, vbfclassifieds_ads.id, user.userid, user.username FROM vbfclassifieds_ads LEFT JOIN user ON vbfclassifieds_ads.userid = user.userid LIMIT 5");
$adsbits = '';
while($row = $db->fetch_array($result))
{
    eval('$adsbits .= "'. fetch_template('forumhome_ads_bits') .'";');
}
eval('$displaydata = "'. fetch_template('forumhome_ads') .'";');