I'm pretty sure I understand what you're trying to say... I think about the best solution I can offer you is to copy the navigation of your forums, and insert that into all of your pages. Then you just link straight to those pages, and the navbar looks the same on all of them.
Either that, or you could use frames. And in at least my little circle of web-designer friends, frames are generally frowned upon. If you use frames, you link to the file, and then specify TARGET=FRAME_NAME inside the A tag, to make that page appear in the frame correctly.
---Skorpion
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when is a croquet mallet like a billy club?
i'll tell you:
whenever you want it to be.
