I took a look at your forum....
Who's online generally displays "Private" if it's on a page outside the threads directory.

Your URL is like this:
http://www.syngnathid.org//ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?Cat=

Note the extra slash. That might be confusing things.
Go through your config file and look for the trailing / and get rid of it. Then, when the online table updates.... it might just solve the problem.

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