[jamslam]

well firstly, you know that you will be looping the template 5 times, right? meaning you have FIVE tables instead of one... so you probably shouldn't use a table in your template, just the link, followed by a <br />

AND are you putting the $last5postsshow in the forumdisplay template to be displayed?

Also, you need to eval EVERY variable u use in your templates... so it should look like this...

        while($this5post=$DB_site->fetch_array($getlast5posts)) { 
                     eval("\$forumspathe = \"".$forumspath."\";"); 
                     eval("\$tid = \"".$this5post[threadid]."\";"); 
                     eval("\$ttitle = \"".$this5post[title]."\";"); 
                     eval("\$last5postsshow = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_lastpostby')."\";"); 
                     
        }

now you will be able to use those variables in forumdisplay templates... also, you should edit your lastpostby template to JUST a link, because remember, that's the template that will be repeated 5 times, so if you have a table in there, there will be five tables... or if you absolutely need a table, put this in the forum display

<table>
$last5postsshow
</table>

then in the lastpostby template....

<tr>
  <td> -- YOUR LINK TO POST -- </td>
</tr>

i hope this helps