Okay, I Give Up. Using variables/template logic in my CMS Grid breaks grid output.

[MetalFrog]

I'm trying to come up with a way to display certain content on the home page, that doesn't show up elsewhere in the CMS.

I found a tip on utilizing a hack to check if the nodeID is 1, and it works well. The problem is, I can't edit my Grid's HTML and put in a conditional to check it. When I put in a variable or an if statement, the grid stops parsing data.

<div id="doc3" class="yui-tvb-r3">
    <div id="bd">
        <div id="yui-main">
            <div class="yui-b">
                <div class="yui-g">
                    <vb:if condition="$vbulletin->nodeid == 1">
                        <div class="yui-g first">
                            <div class="yui-u first yui-panel">
                                <ul class="list_no_decoration widget_list" id="widgetlist_column1">$column[1]</ul>
                            </div>
                            <div class="yui-u yui-panel">
                                <ul class="list_no_decoration widget_list" id="widgetlist_column2">$column[2]</ul>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    <vb:else />
                        <div class="yui-g">
                            <div class="yui-u first yui-panel">
                                <ul class="list_no_decoration widget_list" id="widgetlist_column3">$column[3]</ul>
                            </div>
                            <div class="yui-u yui-panel">
                                <ul class="list_no_decoration widget_list" id="widgetlist_column4">$column[4]</ul>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </vb:if>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="yui-b yui-sidebar">
            <ul class="list_no_decoration widget_list" id="widgetlist_column5">$column[5]</ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

This code will output the following, instead of the parsed content from the columns...

$column[1]

$column[2]

$column[3]

$column[4]

$column[5]

I take out the if, and it works again. I put in {vb:raw vbulletin->nodeid} to see if it outputs the id, and it goes back to being broken.

Is what I'm trying to do just not possible?