Gizmo,

Thanks for the Reply.

I changed
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<a href="{ubb url="ubb=show`$display`&Number=`$topics[row].post_id`#Post`$topics[row].post_id`" title=$topics[row].post_subject}">{$topics[row].post_subject}</a>

to:
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<a href="{ubb url="ubb=show`$display`&topic=`$topics[row].topic_id`" title=$topics[row].post_subject}">{$topics[row].post_subject}</a>

This gave me what I wanted on the 'Active Topics' page where the text link points to the beginning of the thread. Unfortunately, it also changed the links on the 'Active Posts' page.

any ideas?