not taking you wrong at all and thanks for the link. i only found out what vbulletin did a little over a week ago and now, thanks to a couple of your wonderful mods and the fabulous software itself, i have the beginnings of a half decent forum, with top stats, a chat box, media embedding, custom rules, an arcade, a nice side bar and more.
but... it has only been a week, and it has only been me. and as you can tell, i'm an amateur

nobody said to me: this is your product options page! i've been thinking of it as my admin control panel vbulletin options. i forget that you guys all call vbulletin 'product'.
that page was the first place i went, and i couldn't see any option there for designating which forums showed up (or rather, didn't show up) in the top stats? can you tell me specifically which setting i need to edit please?
thanks very much.