Just to wrap up the post..
He wanted to enable the custom island in between 1st and 2nd post.
so I'll summarize to make the thread complete.
1. create a custom island (maybe text like above + some banner code)
2. forum permissions "Must view ad island" set to 1 for each group that should see it
3. forum settings -- custom insert -- pull down to the custom island created.. save settings.
Bam..
