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OK, to get the forums to display without javascript...

1) Open your modified FORUMHOME template

2) Find

<!-- Tabbed Forum Home -->

and below it put

<div id="show" style="display:none">

3) Find

<!-- /Tabbed Forum Home  -->

and above it put

</div>

4) Find

<!-- /main -->

and above it put

<div id="hide">
$forumbits
$forumhome_markread_script
</div>

5) Below

<!-- /main -->

put

<script type="text/javascript">
                   function showelement(element) {
            if (document.getElementById) {
                document.getElementById(element).style.display = 'block';
            }
            else {
                if (document.layers) {
                    document.element.display = 'block';
                }
                else {
                    document.all.element.style.display = 'block';
                }
            }
        }
        function hideelement(element) {
            if (document.getElementById) {
                document.getElementById(element).style.display = 'none';
            }
            else {
                if (document.layers) {
                    document.element.display = 'none';
                }
                else {
                    document.all.element.style.display = 'none';
                }
            }
        }

showelement('show');
hideelement('hide');
</script>

6) Go to ACP > Styles and Templates > Template Manager > Edit Templates > forumhome > forumhome_level1_nopost and change the conditional to:

<if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == 'tabforumhome' AND in_array($forum['forumid'], $GLOBALS[tabcats])) OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay' OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">

This is for the AJAX 1.5 version, though it can be changed to work with v1.0.1. If it doesn't work then double check you did everything right. This is unsupported. Please note doing this will load your forums the regular way along side the ajax version, even if you have javascript enabled, but the regular display will be hidden with javascript.