[John Lester]

Originally Posted by ia7

Just want to say big thanks to Seven Skins for this mod, takes a wee bit of work to get working with a customised design but well worth it due to the stupidity of vB4 not having the ability to have the sidebar on pages other than FORUMHOME.

So thanks a lot!
I have just suffered with this myself and after trying clears, clearfix's and all sorts, in the end it all came down to simply adding overflow: hidden to the opening div that contains your background.

Mine for example was body_wrapper so in the navbar template I found:

<div class="body_wrapper">

and changed it to: (show only to Guests on ForumDisplay)

<div class="body_wrapper"<vb:if condition="$show['guest'] && THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay'"> style="overflow:hidden;"</vb:if>>

In your case I believe you're using bodyWrapper so just copy the red section and paste it into the bodyWrapper div.

I should say I'm using this on vB 4.1.3

An easier way is to place

{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end}

at the very top of the footer template (above everything else).

My only issue with this hack is that the column is a few pixels higher than my forum display and I can't figure out how to adjust it I have tried adding padding as alluded to on page 11 ... or 10 .. whatever ... and it doesn't do anything.