[Michael Morris]

Those checks only work for PRIMARY usergroups. To check if a member has permissions to a usergroup at all you need to use the is_member_of function

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, X)">

Where X is the group you want to check.

I find it most useful that if I want to hide or display info based on a usergroup (such as say, pain membership), create a usergroup for that specific item and use is_member_of