Ah thank you. It indeed did work for FORUMHOME but it needed a little adjustment.
<if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if>
should be:
<if condition="$forum[forumid] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if>
I also found out (on my own) which file needed to be touched up in order to get it to work with THREADBIT properly. It was only a matter of finding out when and where vB spits out that template and the rest was easy
See? :surprised: