Thanks for taking the time to answer my queries! With your tip, I managed to eliminate the white border around the GIF.
I'm quite new to vB, actually. Learning a *lot,* but nevertheless am green when it comes to decoding code and toying with it. It's somewhat hard for me to guess what this or that string of code will do. I started by deleting the "Title" line in the FORUMDISPLAY template, but that didn't have an effect.
What I need to do is remove the GIF from the page when viewing all the threads and the page when reading a thread. In both cases, the GIF still shows, screwing the tables of the forum. I looked throughout the modifications section of this forum and the vbulletin.com forum, but no go. Hopefully, you can find a few min to show me what needs to be done. Here are some pics to show what I'm talking about.