Why won't external vbulletin pages do this?

[JohnBee]

I just wanted to know why we are not able to do

<?php
include ("bottom.php");include ("whatever.php");
?>

on external bBulletin pages that use the

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEMPLATE_XXX') . '");');

I know we can put the php include in the php include template
and it works from there but I am using a news sscript that cannot
work from the templates because it carries a newsid variable from
a cgi script to open a static page.

So I was wondering, is there any way to do a php includes from
a .php file after pulling forum data from a template?

I have tried over and over all I get are blank white pages the moment
I put an eval('print_output( function in the page.

very frustrating