[akanevsky]

Yah I was thinking that but that would mean that I would have to change the query to grab alot more results, changing the while loop to only run until there are 5 results SHOWN instead of while there are still results from the quert and check inside the loop.

And call me paedantic but I don't like using while loops like that, I'd prefer to somehow just grab the full query.

You just do it by incrementing $i or any other variable after actually showing the thread. On the other hand, I don't see why do you need to see threads that you cannot actually read (since they're in private forums).