New Conditional in threadbit

[Bill Thebert]

My head is just swimming from looking at all these templates, variable names, etc. I'm in way over my head here.

Nevertheless, here's what I want to do:

In my vBulletin installation, I have a forum (id=31) that is acting as a Classified Ad "category". This category contains (at the moment) four forums (ids = 33, 34, 38 & 39) that contain different types of classified ads.

Replies are not permitted in these forums, so every thread contains only one post -- that of the thread starter. (Occasionally one of the moderators will reply to a classified ad, but it's rare.)

I would like to modify the threadbit template used by forumdisplay.php in any of these classified ad forums -- but leave the rest of the forums alone. No changes there.

The change I wish to make is to add a small column between the "Thread/Thread Starter" column, and the "Last Post" column.

I would like this new column to contain the contents of "field9" from the thread starter's user profile. (This is a custom user profile field containing the two-letter State/Province abbreviation of the user.)

I would like the HEADING on this column to be "State".

Can anyone give me guidance in both formulating and placing the proper conditional & query to make this happen? Talk to me like I'm a two year-old, please, because as I said, I'm in way over my head here.

Thanks,

Bill