How odd... I dunno what it could be. You shouldn't edit any portion of newsdisplay.cgi (except maybe the Perl path). It just needs to be uploaded in ASCII to your UBB CGI Dir and CHMODed 755.
No part of the UBB should be affecting the actual layout of newsdisplay.cgi, except maybe the header and footer.
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