my brain is not awake enough for the second question (maybe not this one either
). You can try editing the , well, ok, that won't work either
The ubbt_header.tmpl stops above your header. It looks good to me and shouldn't bother the look for you except on pages that do not have enough info to fill out the screen. You could wrap the whole thing in a div valign=top but you run the risk of really messing up the look for everyone then
If I hatch an idea, I'll post again