Just a small note to anyone running v3.2.1 - Intex and Littlebit have found 3 small bugs in the script. Anyone running v3.2.1 should upgrade to the latest version in the first post (there are instructions and more details about the bugs in that post as well). I apologize to everyone for not testing the script better than I did, but hopefully those will be the only bugs found. On the plus side, I think I did figure out a better way to pull the news posts without any modifications to your newthread.php file or the post table in the database. Littlebit is testing this for me now (and I will be looking for a couple of other beta testers), so hopefully this new way will work better and there will be another update to follow in the next few days.
MatrixSh0cke - If you'll take a look at
this post it should help you out.
frankenberrie - When pulling a random poll, it goes by the same forum permissions as the latest threads section, hence you should only be able to see polls in forums that you are allowed to view. Try logging out and see if it's still pulling polls from private forums. If so, double check that your forum permissions are set correctly and that the "Use Custom Settings" radio button at the top of the forum permissions section is checked. If you still have problems after that please let me know.
Littlebit - Glad to hear it. Thanks for helping to test it and please let me know if there are any problems.