[Tigga]

formerEVO? - I can't really think of a reason it wouldn't display if everything was done and installed correctly... You can double check that you have a template called index_newsbits and that it's not blank. If you have phpMyAdmin, you could log in with that and make sure your post table has a row called "isnews" (it should be the last one). If that's there then you should find your news post (should have 8 in the id field) and make sure that it has a 'Y' in the isnews column. Let me know about those things and that should help determine the problem.

musclebody - Judging by that error it doesn't look like there is anything set for your path. Either way though if you are going to put it in your forums directory you can just remove that line and it should work fine.

snout - I just upgraded my test board to 2.3.0 and apparently the vBulletin upgrade script deletes the templates. If you upload the myvb_install.php script and go to this url it will install just the templates for you -
http://yoursite.com/forums/admin/myvb_install.php?step=3.