Excellent!! Thanks v much – that worked. Although is there a way to do the same thing on category pages such as http://causepages.com/sw/forum/depression/ as well to make sure the topic preview also doesn’t grey out?
Just FYI, you might note that when trying to click into the forum rules via the link above it doesn’t actually shown the post to a non-administrator. Trying to figure out why here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/closed-topics-cannot-be-viewed-disappear/