LDM wrote:It must be inheriting the overall footer from prosilver then.
you da man! i was looking in the WRONG version of prosilver. once i navigated into the modded version (and not the stock vanilla phpbb3 ver of prosilver), i found the ad stuff, yanked it, then replaced the 360elite with the edited prosilver, checked it - NO ADS! W00T!! and then, reversed the process back to elite360 - working now....awesome, dude! nasty trip, but learned some stuff - and that's the whole enchilada, anyway, eh?