[Spode]

As far as the collapsing thing, the control panel option you suggest basically only affects the home template and not the rest of the forum.

I found the way round what I wanted by just deleting the contents of the forumlevel2 templates. That way no html is rendered in the tables for subforums. I could have just taken the bit out of the template for displaying forums to just not echo the forumlovel2 template. But this was easier.

As far as the calender thing, that makes perfect sence. I think I probably have enough knowledge of vB modding to have seen that straight off, and I am a little annoyed I didn't.

I think I've done more complicated mods of my cuff before! LOL

Thanks for the info though, I shall try that this evening.