I patched the newspal.php script in the attachment of this thread's main post. The problem was that the date was not being displayed correctly for sticky posts. If your not displaying sticky posts on your index page then there shouldn't be any problems and you probably can wait for IIP 6.0 which is fixed.
This patch for IIP 5.1 will still not be quite right because of a bug in .threads that causes the posted date of a sticky post to reflect the date of the last reply. If nobody replies to your sticky post then the displayed date in the newspal.php script will be correct. If they do then this date will reflect their reply date.
Edit Note: just download the zip and upload the new newspal.php script to your /pals directory and your set.
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