Could you not just use the IMG tag with the link to the image of choice in the Forum Name field? I know in 5.x, there were some fields (like the reason for being Closed) that would accept HTML... I have never tried to do it in the Forum Title fields, but it might work...
Alternately, if you gave the images the same filenames as the forum names, you could do something to the template like

. I know that's nowhere near actual Perl, and I am not sure what the exact variable name is... but it would look something like that but in real Perl.
Those are my ideas... sorry if they don't work.
---Skorpion
[ February 21, 2001: Message edited by: Skorpion ]