thunderclap82.... as it turns out, by adding forums/ in front of the search.php callout like you said, my newposts link on the actual forums doesn't work now.
So I'm back to square one, as described in post
#4.

Can someone out there help?
I suck at coding but I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to have to turn the entire cyb_advancednewposts template into an if/then statement. I have no idea how to do that (yet).