Well, that's one theory. Eminem, before I continue, you should know that the majority of the mods here DON'T agree with me on this, so you're well supported.
I'm not a big fan of the header/footer for one reason: it totally spaces the code weird (at least in my opinion.)
There are several ways of going about this, another would be to add the code as a conditional statement and toggle it on or off from the control panel.
As of yet, I haven't been able to find anyone who can help me write code to call variables in an "non-ubb" script. When I do, I'll let you know.