He might have implemented the tempalte mod to show the first post in a different format, but forgot to put the first format in ?
my Postbit template is setup as follows:
Code:
<if condition="$post['postcount'] == 1">
.... contents of postbit for first post only ...
<else />
.... contents of postbit for all subsequent posts ...
</if>
I use it to show the first post using the vB3 standard postbit, and the rest of the posts using the vB2 style postbit ...