You can't get it to look like that, without adding a TON of extra work.
The only way to actually connect the two rows like that, would be to remove the table closer tag in public_forum_summary.pl, and remove the table opener tag in public_common.pl. And by removing the table opener in common.pl, you would render that table completely useless to every other view of the forum. The only way to actually make the table work, from then on, is to add an extra table opener tag into every other public template file. If you felt like you absolutely needed to do that, and had the time, I suppose this would be possible. But IMHO it's really way too much unnecessary work.
As for simply moving the location of the buttons/functions in the top row: just switch the contents of the second and third cells, and make it so the second cell has the width="100%" attribute instead of the third one.
---Skorpion
[ April 16, 2001 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Skorpion ]