Help with side blocks pease

[Phil Dart]

Hello everyone - I wonder if someone could give some pointers please. I recently bought a forum that was already established, so I am pretty naive about the nuts and bolts behind the scene

The version is 4.2.3

There is currently a section that renders a selection of 4 random photos drawn from a gallery elsewhere. I would like to move it to a side block so I can use that space for something else. I stupidly thought I could copy and paste the template code into a side block and that would be that, having removed the title bar, but all that happens is that the side block renders some of the code, irrespective of whether I paste it as html or php

The template code that currently does the job is below.

<vb:if condition="!empty($pppro_imagebits)">
<div id="pppro"></div>
<ol class="floatcontainer">
<li class="forumbit_nopost">
<div class="forumhead foruminfo L1 collapse">
<a class="collapse" id="collapse_featurepal" href="forum.php#top"><img src="images/buttons/collapse_40b.png" alt="" /></a>
<h2><span class="forumtitle">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From the Gallery</span></h2>
</div>
<ol class="childforum">
<li class="forumbit_post">
<div id="featurepal" class="forumrow table">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<br />
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
{vb:raw pppro_imagebits}
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
<br />
</vb:if>

Anyone kind enough to reply should assume I am an idiot with no knowledge. I am more than happy to be talked down to

Best wishes