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You have to set up your forum with categories and forums for most styles to work right.

To do this -

1. login to your admin cp
2. scroll down to Forums & Moderators > click on Forum Manager
3. If you already have forums set up, You'll need to create a category, such as Community Forum or General Chat, or whatever you want. When you get to Act As Forum, select NO. This makes it a category.
4. To move forums to that category, Make sure you select the name of that category where it says "Parent Forum".
5. Save
6. To add a new category, under Forums & Moderators in the left column, click on Add New Forums.

That's it.