ok i found the problem. When SF Mara mentioned something about the "public_pm_list.pl" i remebered the table layout hack was added to that.
here is what the hack guide said to do.
##### public_pm_list.pl
##### find:
<CENTER>
$standard_title_table
</CENTER>
<P>
<FORM ACTION="$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb.cgi" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="ubb" VALUE="update_$_[0]">
$TBT
<TR bgcolor="$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}">
<TD valign="bottom" align="left">
<FONT size="1" face="$vars_style{FontFace}">
[b]»
$show_logout
[/b]
</font>
</TD>
<TD valign="bottom" align="right">
<FONT size="1" face="$vars_style{FontFace}">[b]
<a href="$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb.cgi">$vars_config{BBName}</a> » <A HREF="$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=my_profile">$vars_wordlets{my_profile_header}</A> » $this_list $vars_wordlets{list}
[/b]</font>
</TD>
</TR>
$TBB
<P>
##### end find
##### replace that with:
<center>
$standard_title_table
<FONT size="1" face="$vars_style{FontFace}">[b]
<a href="$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb.cgi">$vars_config{BBName}</a> » <A HREF="$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=my_profile">$vars_wordlets{my_profile_header}</A> » $this_list $vars_wordlets{list}
[/b]</font>
</TD>
</TR>
$TBB
<P>
##### end replace
for some reason it says to remove the line of code that updates the buddy list. am I right? well fixed the Public_pm_list.pl.
Thanks to SF Mara for telling me what file it was, that really got things moving. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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