[Lynne]

Do you realize that if a user doesn't have permission to see the forum, then none of the threads in the forum will show up in the New Posts?

But, to answer your question - to exclude forums in the New Posts button, you may add "&exclude=xx" or "&exclude=xx,yy,zz" (separate the forumids by commas) to the end of the New Posts url... ie. "/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=xx" This would normally be in the navbar template. I think it occurs in a couple of places there, so you will need to edit each of those urls.