ok, i'm a dork
yes, not only did i post this in two separate threads, but the solution was due to my stupid error.
guess this is what happens when 4 year old is eating and them pitches a fit when i'm working on this.
First i went about this the easy way, overwriting all files in STAFF folder and INCLUDE folder, so I thought.
I looked into the code on the admin page and found this hint..
case 'templates':
case 'banlist':
$nav->setTabActive('emails');
$nav->addSubMenu(array('desc'=>'Email Addresses','href'=>'admin.php?t=email','iconclass'=>'emailSettings'));
$nav->addSubMenu(array('desc'=>'Add New Email','href'=>'admin.php?t=email&a=new','iconclass'=>'newEmail'));
$nav->addSubMenu(array('desc'=>'Templates','href'=>'admin.php?t=templates','title'=>'Email Templates','iconclass'=>'emailTemplates'));
$nav->addSubMenu(array('desc'=>'Banlist','href'=>'admin.php?t=banlist','title'=>'Banned Email','iconclass'=>'banList'));
switch(strtolower($_REQUEST)){
case 'templates':
$page='templates.inc.php';
$template=null;
if(($id=$_REQUEST?$_REQUEST:$_POST) && is_numeric($id)) {
i am no code monkey, but I did notice I was missing a file.
$page='templates.inc.php';
templates.inc.php was missing.
i had template.inc.php
i guess it helps to have the correct file there. there goes all that time for nothing..
now if I can get the stupid captcha i'll be set
thanks for reading this.