Navbar problems

[NightCrawler?]

I wanted to have a side panel on the right of my forum so i decided to use the trick found here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101599

Since i don't want it to appear on all pages but mainly on the forum index i placed the code in the forumhome template.
The content is generated by a new template called sidebar which gets called with $sidebar.

I've placed the entire content from the original navbar template into the new sidebar template but it's giving me headaches...
Everything which is conditioned stopped working, the dropdown menus stops working and the PM phrases don't either.

I'm convinced it has to do with functions etc. but i'm a total n00b when it comes to stuff like this.
Is what i want possible and if so how would i go about achieving it?

Thanks in advance....

NC?