Whatever it was, it was causing the active topics error. Thank you for finding that. Now I just have the error with forum.asp.
No I don't have a link as the "author" "replies" and so forth headers on the forum face are all off by one place when the edited forum file is in use, so I put my forum asp backup back in place until the error can be found.
If everything is off by one place, it sounds like a tag wasn't closed properly in the HTML. Did you try checking the final HTML to see what was put out?