[Sarcoth]

Originally Posted by TripleChin

Does anyone have any suggestions to the questions I posted?

Not sure about your second IF condition there, but why not use something like:
<vb:if condition="$userinfo.$column[columns4] != ''">{vb:var userinfo.{vb:var columns[column4]}}<vb:else /><img src='http://myimages.com/image.gif'></vb:if>

Not 100% sure about that since I am a little rusty with the fields. If that does not work, I can take a look at it next week once the new version is released.

Here is how the entire line will look in version 4.0.4:

<vb:if condition="$show[field4th] AND exec_switch_bg()"><td><vb:if condition="$userinfo.$column[columns4] != ''">{vb:var userinfo.{vb:var columns[column4]}}<vb:else /><img src='http://myimages.com/image.gif'></vb:if></td></vb:if>