Lookie here, I thought this
hack had gone unnoticed. If you're still interested, all you have to do is insert the code wherever you would like the topics to be on your page. If you look through it, you will see a few places to adjust the quantity of posts, and also which forum number to take them from. And also add the </table> tag as akiy pointed out. I'm sorry I'm not more of a help, but it's been so long since I did this...
If it helps, the forum number in the example is 5, as well as the amount of topics to display. Let me know if there is anything else you're unclear on. I suppose I should clean this up a little bit, now that I actually *know* php

. Maybe if Sir Sullivan is bored, he could take a quick look at it. I'm sure there would be an easy and efficient way to change all the settings - this code was basically thrown together to accomplish something for my site, so I didn't really plan on documentation and everything, as well as ease of use

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Sorry about that - and sorry about the delay in replying - I hadn't seen it until I started looking for something else.
-jim