Well, they are done that way in the admin cp area to avoid the template system, I believe (so if you have ruined a template, you can still get into the admin cp). The rest of the forum uses templates to spit out lines of code. Look at all the threads listed as a result of a New Posts search... those aren't spit out using a print_row function, the template is evaled in a while statement. So, in the main forums, a template is used as a kinda print_row function.
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