That's not it either unfortunately.

I really do not want to reinstall because of one little stupid "<", but it looks more and more like that's what i gotta do..

No, it's inside the topics and on the rules page and everywhere else.

When i highlight the "<" and choose View source i can see the problem (right at the beginning), but i don't know which file this code comes from:

<<div id="brdfooter" class="block">
    <h2><span>Sidfot</span></h2>
    <div class="box">
        <div class="inbox">

            <dl id="searchlinks" class="conl">
                <dt><strong>Söklänkar</strong></dt><dd><a href="search.php?action=show_24h">Visa de senaste inläggen</a></dd>

                <dd><a href="search.php?action=show_unanswered">Visa obesvarade inlägg</a></dd>
            </dl>
            <p class="conr">Powered by <a href="http://punbb.org/">PunBB</a><br>© Copyright 2002?2005 Rickard Andersson</p>
            <div class="clearer"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

I've decided to change from forumer.com (a forumhost using Invision) to PunBB and i'm in the middle of setting it up like i want it before i make the switch. Doing so i have probably done something i shouldn't with the code, because there is a "<" displayed right above the footer that should not be there (see pic)..

http://stadsparksvallen.se/forum.gif

I don't know much about these things so i don't try to mess too much with the code, but i installed a few mods that required some code editing, and since then this little bugger have been there. The mods i installed are mods PMS 1.2.1 and New Window Link. I assume it's something wrong in footer.php, so i include it here. Maybe one of you guys can spot the error and help me out?

<?php
/***********************************************************************

  Copyright (C) 2002-2005  Rickard Andersson (rickard@punbb.org)

  This file is part of PunBB.

  PunBB is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
  by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
  or (at your option) any later version.

  PunBB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
  MA  02111-1307  USA

************************************************************************/


// Make sure no one attempts to run this script "directly"
if (!defined('PUN'))
    exit;

$tpl_temp = trim(ob_get_contents());
$tpl_main = str_replace('<pun_main>', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
ob_end_clean();
// END SUBST - <pun_main>


// START SUBST - <pun_footer>
ob_start();

?>
<div id="brdfooter" class="block">
    <h2><span><?php echo $lang_common['Board footer'] ?></span></h2>
    <div class="box">
        <div class="inbox">
<?php

// If no footer style has been specified, we use the default (only copyright/debug info)
$footer_style = isset($footer_style) ? $footer_style : NULL;
require(PUN_ROOT.'include/pms/footer_links.php');

if ($footer_style == 'index' || $footer_style == 'search')
{
    if (!$pun_user['is_guest'])
    {
        echo "\n\t\t\t".'<dl id="searchlinks" class="conl">'."\n\t\t\t\t".'<dt><strong>'.$lang_common['Search links'].'</strong></dt>'."\n\t\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="search.php?action=show_24h">'.$lang_common['Show recent posts'].'</a></dd>'."\n";
        echo "\t\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="search.php?action=show_unanswered">'.$lang_common['Show unanswered posts'].'</a></dd>'."\n";

        if ($pun_config['o_subscriptions'] == '1')
            echo "\t\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="search.php?action=show_subscriptions">'.$lang_common['Show subscriptions'].'</a></dd>'."\n";

        echo "\t\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="search.php?action=show_user&user_id='.$pun_user['id'].'">'.$lang_common['Show your posts'].'</a></dd>'."\n\t\t\t".'</dl>'."\n";
    }
    else
    {
        if ($pun_user['g_search'] == '1')
        {
            echo "\n\t\t\t".'<dl id="searchlinks" class="conl">'."\n\t\t\t\t".'<dt><strong>'.$lang_common['Search links'].'</strong></dt><dd><a href="search.php?action=show_24h">'.$lang_common['Show recent posts'].'</a></dd>'."\n";
            echo "\t\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="search.php?action=show_unanswered">'.$lang_common['Show unanswered posts'].'</a></dd>'."\n\t\t\t".'</dl>'."\n";
        }
    }
}
else if ($footer_style == 'viewforum' || $footer_style == 'viewtopic')
{
    echo "\n\t\t\t".'<div class="conl">'."\n";

    // Display the "Jump to" drop list
    if ($pun_config['o_quickjump'] == '1')
    {
        // Load cached quickjump
        @include PUN_ROOT.'cache/cache_quickjump_'.$pun_user['g_id'].'.php';
        if (!defined('PUN_QJ_LOADED'))
        {
            require_once PUN_ROOT.'include/cache.php';
            generate_quickjump_cache($pun_user['g_id']);
            require PUN_ROOT.'cache/cache_quickjump_'.$pun_user['g_id'].'.php';
        }
    }

    if ($footer_style == 'viewforum' && $is_admmod)
        echo "\t\t\t".'<p id="modcontrols"><a href="moderate.php?fid='.$forum_id.'&p='.$p.'">'.$lang_common['Moderate forum'].'</a></p>'."\n";
    else if ($footer_style == 'viewtopic' && $is_admmod)
    {
        echo "\t\t\t".'<dl id="modcontrols"><dt><strong>'.$lang_topic['Mod controls'].'</strong></dt><dd><a href="moderate.php?fid='.$forum_id.'&tid='.$id.'&p='.$p.'">'.$lang_common['Delete posts'].'</a></dd>'."\n";
        echo "\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="moderate.php?fid='.$forum_id.'&move_topics='.$id.'">'.$lang_common['Move topic'].'</a></dd>'."\n";

        if ($cur_topic['closed'] == '1')
            echo "\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="moderate.php?fid='.$forum_id.'&open='.$id.'">'.$lang_common['Open topic'].'</a></dd>'."\n";
        else
            echo "\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="moderate.php?fid='.$forum_id.'&close='.$id.'">'.$lang_common['Close topic'].'</a></dd>'."\n";

        if ($cur_topic['sticky'] == '1')
            echo "\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="moderate.php?fid='.$forum_id.'&unstick='.$id.'">'.$lang_common['Unstick topic'].'</a></dd></dl>'."\n";
        else
            echo "\t\t\t".'<dd><a href="moderate.php?fid='.$forum_id.'&stick='.$id.'">'.$lang_common['Stick topic'].'</a></dd></dl>'."\n";
    }

    echo "\t\t\t".'</div>'."\n";
}

?>
            <p class="conr">Powered by <a href="http://punbb.org/">PunBB</a><?php if ($pun_config['o_show_version'] == '1') echo ' '.$pun_config['o_cur_version']; ?><br />© Copyright 2002?2005 Rickard Andersson</p>
<?php

// Display debug info (if enabled/defined)
if (defined('PUN_DEBUG'))
{
    // Calculate script generation time
    list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime());
    $time_diff = sprintf('%.3f', ((float)$usec + (float)$sec) - $pun_start);
    echo "\t\t\t".'<p class="conr">[ Generated in '.$time_diff.' seconds, '.$db->get_num_queries().' queries executed ]</p>'."\n";
}

?>
            <div class="clearer"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<?php


// End the transaction
$db->end_transaction();

// Display executed queries (if enabled)
if (defined('PUN_SHOW_QUERIES'))
    display_saved_queries();

$tpl_temp = trim(ob_get_contents());
$tpl_main = str_replace('pun_footer>', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
ob_end_clean();
// END SUBST - <pun_footer>


// START SUBST - <pun_include "*">
while (preg_match('#<pun_include "([^/\\\\]*?)">#', $tpl_main, $cur_include))
{
    if (!file_exists(PUN_ROOT.'include/user/'.$cur_include[1]))
        error('Unable to process user include <pun_include "'.htmlspecialchars($cur_include[1]).'"> from template main.tpl. There is no such file in folder /include/user/');

    ob_start();
    include PUN_ROOT.'include/user/'.$cur_include[1];
    $tpl_temp = ob_get_contents();
    $tpl_main = str_replace($cur_include[0], $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
    ob_end_clean();
}
// END SUBST - <pun_include "*">


// Close the db connection (and free up any result data)
$db->close();

// Spit out the page
exit($tpl_main);

Since i've already got the screenshot of the footer up i might aswell ask another thing regarding the footer; I'm allowed to change the "Powered by" to something a little more swedish, right? Like "Drivs med" or "[forumname] körs med" or something like that..