[squishi]

I have a fairly good understanding of html. I've tried doing what you said (mentioned it in the original post already), but it did not work.
So I guess I must be overlooking something.

Here is the template contents that control the width of the header row:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
	<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">

<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>
			<if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><span class="smallfont">- $forum[description]</span></if>

	  </td>

	  <td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>

	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>
</thead>

The width of 175 is added to the last post section in the table's header row, but it is not applied in the browser. Adding a css style instead of the width attribute does not work, either.

The only reason that I can think of is the width of 100% in the preceding table cell?