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Originally Posted by bzcomputers

First issue I have is I'm trying to call up a template within a template.

You should be able to render one template, save the result in a string, then register it as a variable in another template, like:

// ###### NOW YOUR TEMPLATE IS BEING RENDERED ######
$templater = vB_Template::create('ccl_navigation');
// register whatever variables ccl_navigation needs here 
$ccl_navigation = $templater->render();

$templater = vB_Template::create('ccl_infoandtips');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
$templater->register('ccl_navigation', $ccl_navigation);
print_output($templater->render());

?>

Then in the ccl_infoandtips template, put {vb:raw ccl_navigation} wherever you want it.

I don't know the answer to the second question, but I'd try using Firefox with Firebug to see what your page is trying to load.