I combined this hack with a better sidebar hack from vbulletintemplates.com and the Xstats hack from here (just for the most recent posts).
I installed the other sidebar (which only adds the sidebar on the forumhome, and nowhere else -- unlike this hack), and then copied the code for stats into the "custom cell space" that the other sidebar hack comes with. It was easy. You can check out the results here:
www.onlinedebate.net/forums/
I still had to install this hack, but not the templates. Also, the devbox_work.php file still won't work as it is supposed to, so you'll have to modify that via ftp manually. As you can see, the result is fine.