Trafix,
I installed your hack without any problems. I made the edits as posted on page 1 to eliminate the extra queries (as I have many forums) - so now everything works semi-okay.
I don't get any banners in the Forumdisplay and showthread pages at all when I use the tag in my $header template as opposed to in the actual page after the $header... Why is that? I'd really prefer it this way so the design of my page wouldn't be compromised.
Also, the banner is in the bannerbank. How could I mod it so this could be done?
http://www.basketballboards.net/forum/images/wanted.gif - How I want it to look.
http://www.basketballboards.net/foru...s/unwanted.gif - How it looks.