I figured out what I am going to do. I will simply not include $header and $footer in FORUMHOME. I will put my entire design, the one you see above in FORUMHOME, and then just have a different header and footer for the other pages using the regular HEADER, and FOOTER templates.

I have 1 problem though, what would be the correct way to slice up that layout for use in such a layout. I used image ready's code and just put the code from FORUMHOME into the cell where the "news/white" area is in the template above. It is not working well though, it looks to be all over in firefox, and doesn't look right in IE either. Does anyone have any suggestions?