multiple navbar versions for different sections of site

[doob]

I'm trying to accomplish having totally different navbars for different sections of the site. I.e different dimensions, placement, links, etc.

I've tried copying the current navbar template to an external php file and then using a plugin to include that file into various templates.

That works fine, but some of the functions built into the navbar template stop working such as things like $vbphrase and $vboptions.

I saw in the docs that making calls to default vbulletin variables from an includes might not work, so maybe that is the problem.

Some of the phrases are easy enough to just replace with text and remove the variable, but I'm not keen on re-writing the navbits structure.

I also don't think having two different styles will work because I'm not using different navs on different forums, but rather different sections such as user profiles, groups, etc.

Too keep this simple, if I just copy the current navbar template into an external file, load that up to the site, create a plugin for the includes and then insert the variable for that includes, i.e. $includeCustomNav into a template such as albumList as a replacement for the default $navbar, what would I need to do to make that work? What am I missing??

Thanks for any help!
Doob