Help Editing Some Templates, Sidebar (Recent Threads/Posts) & Postbit

[AJwcf]

So I am attempting to sort out some small issues that my forum has complained about, and my limited knowledge of the necessary codes is becoming an issue, I'm hoping someone can help me sort through the problems.

First one would be the built in sideabar and the Recent Threads/Recent Posts thing...

Basically the issue is that the recent threads takes you to the most recent thread, but the first post.

Recent posts takes you to the most recent post, but is sometimes ALL the same thread filling the list.

What I'm hoping for is how to either make the Recent Threads link to the most recent post, or to make Recent Posts only display once for a thread...

On top of that I have some issues trying to find certain aspects of my postbit since adding an add on, I would just like to remove an image that the add on has added along with its stats..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.