[Phil Dart]

Thanks for your replies guys.
The current setup renders four random thumbs drawn from multiple albums in Photopost Pro, so although I see where you're coming from CAG, it doesn't really work because there are many album lists not just one.

The code below works perfectly in the main body of the home page, and all I'm trying to do is make it work in a sideblock instead.

Mark, the data is built and works just fine where it is, I just have no understanding of hooks and returns and so on to make it work in a block. I know I am probably being particularly dim, but when you don't know, you just don't know.

<vb:if condition="!empty($pppro_imagebits)">
<div id="pppro"></div>
<ol class="floatcontainer">
    <li class="forumbit_nopost">

// -- i know I can get rid of this <div> for the haeder, it won't be needed, and the ol and li classes too --
<div class="forumhead foruminfo L1 collapse">
        <a class="collapse" id="collapse_featurepal" href="forum.php#top"><img src="images/buttons/collapse_40b.png" alt="" /></a>
    <h2>
        <span class="forumtitle">{vb:rawphrase pp_featured_photos}</span></h2>
</div>

<ol class="childforum">
    <li class="forumbit_post">
<div id="featurepal" class="forumrow table">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<br />
    <table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">
      <tr>
          {vb:raw pppro_imagebits}
      </tr>
    </table>
<br />
</td>
</tr>

</table>
    </div>
</li>
    </ol>
</li>
    </ol>
<br />
</vb:if>