Ah... Well I'm not a mod-type-person, and don't plan on being one for a llllloonnnnnggg time, :p. All I did to get it to work, was follow your instructions on what to code, in your original post, perfectly. Did it on a clean board with no mods done to it at the time. :p
And I don't think you're supposed to edit the template.. only the Boardindex.php. Where it says
<open file>
BoardIndex.php
</open file>
That tells you what file you're supposed to edit, hence the 'open file' :p. In the 'Search For', that's what you're supposed to look for in the code, and with the stuff in the 'replace' lines, you need to replace the stuff you 'searched for', with the stuff in the 'replace'. It's all as easy as that. Simply open the 'open file' stuff in a text editor, like wordpad, and go from there.
That enough info for how I did it and got it to work? :p Coulda sworn that 'Actually I went ahead and did all the above code on my 1.4.1 system and it works, perfectly

' would be enough of an explanation. Oh well, Silly me

If anybody has problems doing it that way...When we upgraded our board, it was from 1.3.0, up to 1.4.1. I wonder if that would have anything to do with it.. *blink*