Thanks again for your guidance here Marty! :wink:

Yes, t-platinum and cobalt are both in the themes folder, and
I very sure (not positive) there is a forums folder within the cobalt folder.
Im at the university lab, and my LAMP is at home hiding behind a locked firewall so i am going from memory, and just DLed cobalt and 76 platinum and unarchived to recreate the situation here for file location reference.

I have a stock platinum 76 install, with cobalt being the ONLY thing i have added to the install. everything except mysql params are set to default.