Hi, you just add the graphic name into the new category background area in your control panel styles template. No http is needed just grad.gif, or whatever your file name is, as long as that graphic is in your noncgi folder it will show up.
What I meant by control for forums is that I added it so everytime you create a new template, the category background entry is there. So you can now create a template with a new gradient graphic and allocate it to a forum. The forum concerned will display the different graphic to the rest of the board.
When I first completed the hack, I found that creating a new template, would lose the category element, but found the needed file and added it in.
Hope it explains ita bit better.
Magnum
