How do I access $show[] outside of navbar template

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I want to move some of the navbar links (ie. userCP, FAQ's, Quicklinks, etc...) to another template. But when i try, i realize that the template conditionals that try to access the $show[] variable don't work.

<if condition="$show['member']">
<if condition="$show['registerbutton']">
<if condition="$show['popups']">
etc...

How can i access that info outside of the navbar?

thanks
eric