Ah...now I see...here's where my logic is off...
The forum name, description and navigation is loaded in main.tpl. Main.tpl is loaded by header.php:
// Load the main template
$fp = fopen('include/template/main.tpl', 'r');
$tpl_main = trim(fread($fp, filesize('include/template/main.tpl')));
fclose($fp);
Now here's where I'm curious. Say I created a main.tpl without the forum name, description and navigation and called it main_forms.tpl and used IF/ELSE.
if [filename] = register.php, login.php or profile.php, load main_forms.tpl, else load main.tpl.
I'm so not used to coding PHP (stopped coding around when ASP was new), but wouldn't this work? A free BOLD SOUL t-shirt to anyone who can toss me an assist!
Thx!