Any interest?

[leefish]

Yes I did. I also tried moving the <!-- Forum Stickies list --> to the forumdisplay and showthread template. Not working. I think the issue (as I said earlier) is in the Global start. I am thinking that that is making the plugin make more queries than it should? Thats the bit I was thinking to do.

However, if I take the global start away and put <!-- Forum Stickies list --> in the head of the forumdisplay/showthread templates then that means  an admin would need to edit the forumdisplay and showthread in two places. So in that case I leave out the template edits on the header and make it so that inserting <!-- Forum Stickies list --> on the forumdisplay and showthread is a manual action, plus inserting the variable {$xtstickies_list}  on the threadlist and showthread to give a working plugin.