[tipoboy]

howdy again...

i've got an error on my memberslist and calendar pages relating to a side column i have which at the end of the footer template i have:

<!-- side column -->
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="sidecolumn">
<table border="0" width="100%" align="left" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
$forumhome_sidecolumn_left
</table>
</td>
<td width="2px"></td>
<td class="maincontent">
<!-- / side column -->

and ending at the begining of my footer

 
<!-- side column -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / side column -->

now i get 12 errors and after several hours searching i believe that the spacer_close is abruptly ending my side column and therefor throwing up the errors i have of end tag for element that is not open,

my question is what is the spacer_close and spacer_open for exactly and what effect would it have if i removed the code from them??

thanks for your help so far