it didn't need bumping, it stayed at the top for the duration
I want the headlines on the side of the forum, so in "header" I build the a 2x1 (2col x 1row) table containing the headlines on the left and the forum on the right. I put header at the end of the $templatesused var in index.php, then modified the code as you suggested. Still not working.
I'm about out of time on this, and the hack isn't all that important, so... I dunno. If I can't get it working I'll revert.