I can't see any tabs on the link you gave. Nor can I see an issue with the category headers.
Check out mine:
http://www.thexuniverse.com/forum/
I will say I had some slight issue with the formatting myself, fixed it by doing the following:
PHP Code:
<!-- CUSTOM tbody CODE BASED ON YOUR STYLE -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_1004')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_1004" src="images/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?f=4">Category Name</a>
<div class="smallfont">Category Description</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_1004" style="">
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</tbody>
<!-- /CUSTOM tbody CODE BASED ON YOUR STYLE -->
That layout fits better with the more normal default vBulletin layout. You'll need to tweak it, but it's perhaps worth checking out the layout of a normal category header and mimicking it.