multiple navbar versions for different sections of site

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My goal is to have multiple navbar layouts and then depending on the section of the site use different layouts. I know I can achieve this other ways, but I think for my purposes having the navbar as an external file and then using an includes is the best way to go.

My steps for testing:

1) copy default navbar template
2) create a new file called newNav.php and paste contents from step 1
3) create plugin for includes at global_start with var name $newNav
4) open a template such as album_pictureview and replace $navbar with $newNav

Now go to site and view an individual picture (because we're talking about album_picture view) and it will have the new navbar (which looks just like the original navbar) except that any of the global vbulletin variables aren't working.

I tried putting this in the newNav.php document, but it doesn't seem to do a thing.

<?php global ($vbphrase, $stylevar, $navbits, $foruminfo, $ad_location);
?>