Ted, just looking at the helpful_answers_topbit template it looks as though i could just do this
HTML Code:
<td class="alt1"><!-- phrase 1="$helpfulanswer[postid]" --><!-- $vbphrase[helpfulanswer_top] --><!-- /phrase --> <a href="./showthread.php?p=$helpfulanswer[postid]#post$helpfulanswer[postid]">$post[username]</a></td>
but, adding that doesn't show in the columns and messes the header ro of helpfulanswers.php and i cant see where to add a column other than there!