Nikos.....
I actually had to not call the table wrappers at all.
So do this:
$Globals['tbopen'] = "<table blah blah blah ><tr><td>....";
Copy and paste from the templates.
Put the actualy HTML in the pp-inc.php
Thus I realize that if I wanna change the wrappers... I'd have to change both the templates in threads and the pp-inc.php file. But it was the only way I can get it to work.