[Simon Lloyd]

In your navbar template look for

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

<br />

and

<if condition="$show['forumdesc']">

and replace everything between them with this

<if condition="$show['notices']">
<form action="profile.php?do=dismissnotice" method="post" id="notices">
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="dismissnotice" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
<input type="hidden" id="dismiss_notice_hidden" name="dismiss_noticeid" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="$return_link" />
	<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">$vbphrase[notices]</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1">
			$notices
		</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	<br />
</form>
</if>

that will be your standard notices, if they still dont work you probably have them set wrong in notice manager.