That error means that you have defined the constant twice. Look through the files you've MOD'd or the new files that came with the MOD and you'll find another line declaring intTopicCount somewhere.
Here's a link to the text version of my default forum page, the only page modded for this MOD [an include only] http://www.mohicanpress.com/default.txt. I don't see any other references to intTopicCount other than if/then type of things.
Ah ha! Yes, inadvertent error on my part. I was seeking a place on the page it might work, and forgot to remove one instance.
Anyway, I placed it up near the top where I have the newsletter & forum news includes [also tried it on the active.asp page with same results]. and receive this error:
quote:Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e14'
You'll need to put a response.write strSQL (or whatever the variable may be called) right before that line so you can see what the query is, most common cause of that error that I've seen is using an invalid forum ID to pull topics from.