Well I did a new template to interact with a new var file.
I wanted to add a bottom tab in the graemlin section to launch it but since it is a seperate template than the one currently loaded I was then told I was not allowed to access this template.
I then figured I had to add my routines to the general.pl template but have not found yet how I could init my var file when this specific tab was asked. My other subs are baseds on LK's calendar hack and are rather different than the way you did yours.