[soundbarrierpro]

Hi Lynne,

Thank you for responding.

After 'literally' going through every single thread and carefully re-reading @ Digital Jedi's responses, I have figured it out. Although my links were working this way:
http://www.mywebsite.com/misc.php?do...te=downloads_1

As DJ said, I had created my templates wrong. I went back and re-config'd my templates as just "downloads_1" and added this right below "Start Main Script"

if ($show['guest']) 
    { 
        print_no_permission(); 

    }

now I can browse my pages as http://www.mysite.com/downloads_1.php etc. with permissions so that you must register.

Whoooo! Thanks everybody for your expert help and for straightening me out