Okay for one that is because you are trying to call the newspal. Now I have been able to call the newspal but that is with a mock up almost identifical to variables found in the index.php file
What I posted above was the addon found under your ubbthreads addon directory called ubbtnews.php. It was designed to pull content from the database and display on another page.
Here is an example I drew up.
http://www.reeftalk.com/news.phpIf you go back to my first post you will see I stated to set the variables in the ubbtnews.php file and then you can use the include statement in whatever page you want. Now the posts are not formatted in nice little boxes but that can be done with a little html work
If you need help and get stuck just PM me.