Okay, this is very simple (I hope). There are two sections to this. They may need to be modified to fit your board.

This will remove the bar that says "FORUMS" "TOPICS" etc. and put them on the category name strip instead.

ONLY DO THIS FOR THE NEWS FADER FIX!

You will find these two sections in public_forum_summary.pl in th JCTemplates folder. This will not work right on the standard templates.
backup your original file and replace the two sections below completly.

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sub CategoryStrip {

	my $CategoryStrip = qq~

$TBB
<br />
$TBT
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$vars_style{CategoryStripColor}" class="catbar" valign="top" align="left">$CategoryName</td>
<td bgcolor="$vars_style{CategoryStripColor}" class="catbar" align="center">topics</td>
<td bgcolor="$vars_style{CategoryStripColor}" class="catbar" align="center">posts</td>
<td bgcolor="$vars_style{CategoryStripColor}" class="catbar" align="left">last post</td>
</tr>

 ~;

	return ($CategoryStrip);
}    #end category strip

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sub Normal_Table_Top {

	
# this is the table displayed on regular forum pages


          my  $Top = qq~
          
~;

	if (($vars_display{ForumTotalOption} eq 'Both') || ($vars_display{ForumTotalOption} eq 'Topics')) {

		$Top .= qq~

~;
	}    # end topic column


	if (($vars_display{ForumTotalOption} eq 'Both') || ($vars_display{ForumTotalOption} eq 'Posts')) {

		$Top .= qq~

~;
	}    # end posts column


	$Top .= qq~

~;

	if ($vars_display{ShowMods} ne 'no') {

		$Top .= qq~

~;
	}    # end mods column

	$Top .= qq~
	$TBB
	<br />
	$TBT
	
~;
	
# Start News Fader Stuff
	
	# determine colspan
	$ColSpan = 3;
	if ($vars_display{ShowMods} eq 'yes') { $ColSpan++; }
	if ($vars_display{ForumTotalOption} eq 'Both') {
		$ColSpan = $ColSpan + 2;
	} else {
		$ColSpan++;
	}
	
	
	# Get post count for News Fader
	if ($vars_news_fader{nfstats} eq "POSTS") {
		$NewsStats = qq~"<b>Current Forum Stats: <font color=\\"$vars_style{TimeColor}\\">$AllPosts</font> Posts</b>","",~;
	}
	elsif ($vars_news_fader{nfstats} eq "TOPICS") {
		$NewsStats = qq~"<b>Current Forum Stats: <font color=\\"$vars_style{TimeColor}\\">$AllTopics</font> Topics</b>","",~;
	}
	elsif ($vars_news_fader{nfstats} eq "BOTH") {
		$NewsStats = qq~"<b>Current Forum Stats: <font color=\\"$vars_style{TimeColor}\\">$AllTopics</font> Topics and <font color=\\"$vars_style{TimeColor}\\">$AllPosts</font> Posts</b>","",~;
	}
	else {
		$NewsStats = "";
	}
	
	if ($vars_news_fader{nfgreet} ne "") {
		$NewsGreet = qq~"<b>$vars_news_fader{nfgreet}</b>","",~;
	} else {
		$NewsGreet = "";
	}
	
	if ($vars_news_fader{nfimgon} ne "OFF") {
		$NewsImg = qq~<img src="$vars_config{NonCGIURL}/$vars_news_fader{nfimg}" border="0" alt="" />~;
	} else {
		$NewsImg = "";
	}
	if ($vars_news_fader{nfimgon} ne "OFF") {
		$NewsTable = qq~<td align="center" bgcolor="$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}">$NewsImg</td>~;
	} else {
		$NewsTable = "";
	}
	
	if ($vars_news_fader{nfimgon} eq "OFF") {
		$NewsCols = $ColSpan;
	} else { 
		$NewsCols = $ColSpan - 1;
	}
	
	if ($vars_news_fader{nfwidth} ne "") {
		$NewsWidth = "$vars_news_fader{nfwidth}";
	} else { 
		$NewsWidth = "700";
	}
	
	if ($vars_news_fader{nfon} eq "ON") {
		# Run The News Fader
		&ReadNews;
		$Top .= qq~<a name="NEWSWIRE"><TR bgcolor="$vars_style{CategoryStripColor}"><TD background="$vars_config{NonCGIURL}/$vars_style{jc_category_bar}" colspan="$ColSpan">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
NS4 = (document.layers);
IE4 = (document.all);
   FDRboxWid = $NewsWidth;
   FDRboxHgt = 30;
   FDRborWid = 0;
   FDRborCol = "$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}";
   FDRborSty = "solid";
   FDRbackCol = "$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}";
   FDRboxPad = 0;

   FDRtxtAln = "$vars_news_fader{nfalign}";
   FDRlinHgt = "10pt";
   FDRfntFam = "$vars_style{FontFace}";
   FDRfntCol = "$vars_style{TextColor}";
   FDRfntSiz = "9pt";
   FDRfntWgh = "bold";
   FDRfntSty = "normal";
   FDRlnkCol = "$vars_style{LinkColor}";
   FDRlnkDec = "underline";
   FDRhovCol = "$vars_style{VisitedLinkColor}";

   FDRgifSrc = "$vars_config{NonCGIURL}/fade.gif";
   FDRgifInt = 60;

   FDRblendInt = "$vars_news_fader{nfspan}";
   FDRblendDur = 1;
   FDRmaxLoops = 100;

   FDRendWithFirst = true;
   FDRreplayOnClick = true;
   
   FDRjustFlip = false;
   FDRhdlineCount = 0;
//-->
</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.2' TYPE='text/javascript'>
prefix="";
arNews = [
$NewsGreet
$NewsStats
$the_page
]
</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.2' SRC='$vars_config{NonCGIURL}/fader.js' TYPE='text/javascript'>
</SCRIPT>
<FONT SIZE="$vars_style{TextSize}" FACE="$vars_style{FontFace}" color="$vars_style{CategoryStripTextColor}"><B>$vars_news_fader{nftitle}</B></FONT>
</td></tr>
<tr>
$NewsTable
<td colspan="$NewsCols" bgcolor="$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}" align="left">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="$vars_style{TableWidth}">
<tr> 
<td width="100%" height="36"><div id="elFader" style="position:relative;visibility:hidden;width:$NewsWidth"><div align="center"><font face="$vars_style{FontFace}" size="$vars_style{TextSize}">News Fader for DHTML Browser.</font></div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>~;
	} else {
		$Top .= "";
	}

	# End News Fader Stuff


	return ($Top);



}    #end normal_table_top

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If you have any trouble with this then you are on your own. I modify too much of the template to make it easy to document.

As always if you don't have a valid UBB license then you have no business using this code.