I just found that when viewing the source for the active topics pages (in IE7, on the client computer), it starts with this:
Code
<?
$ubbt_lang['FORUM'] = "Forum";
$ubbt_lang['POSTED'] = "Posted";
$ubbt_lang['JUMP_NEW'] = "Jump to new posts";
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr">
<head>
A little testing revealed that if the PHP code wasn't passed to the client, then my Active Topics pages would look correct.

I was able to fix it by changing the first line of 'languages/english/activetopics.php' from '<?' to '<?php' (no quotes, of course).

I hope this helps!

Shane


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