Is this possible? Displaying threads on index with x criteria

[brad-t]

It has to be within the forumbit_depth2_forum template ... there is a reason for this.

http://i.imgur.com/guNv7kk.png

Haralooks and Brand Directory are links to forums, and they are actually the templates
xttimg_index_latest_threads and mnxt_mrtxpd_threads, respectively. However, because of this, it's impossible to pull the unread status and last post information properly.

I can customize the display of each forumbit using template conditionals, but in order to get the last post info and unread status I need to have those templates as a part of the forumbit.