[filburt1]

Okay, make two replacement vars:

{catfirstaltshadow} is replaced by ../new/catshadow-firstalt.gif
{catsecondaltshadow} is replaced by ../new/catshadow-secondalt.gif

firstalt should be a gradient from one color to the first alt color, same with second alt.

Then in forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost replace put this after the last <tr>:

<tr id="cat" height="10">
	<td background="{catsecondaltshadow}"> </td>
	<td background="{catfirstaltshadow}"> </td>
	<td background="{catsecondaltshadow}"> </td>
	<td background="{catfirstaltshadow}"> </td>
	<td background="{catsecondaltshadow}"> </td>
	<td background="{catfirstaltshadow}"> </td>
</tr>

...replacing "10" with the height of the two images.