If you want a hand with this let me know.
It realy is not that hard.

In the header you would have the start of the table and the nav bar, then you have the open second column.
<table> (start of table)
<tr>
<td width=120> (nav bar)
Links
and
other
nav
bar
stuff
</td> (end nav bar)
<td> (open second column)

The is all you would have in your header and the forums yould be here

</td> (end second column)
</tr>
</table>

that would be in the footer

look at my source if you want