Having developed the forum on my local machine when I promoted it to our test site I found that the top menu (the one that says 'logged in as x' and has the 'Inbox | Search | Admin | Active Topics | My Profile | Members | Logout' menu) has disappeared. This seems to be the difference between using 'advanced.aspx' and 'default.aspx' but I can't see an option or anything else that would get me my menu back.

Does anyone have an idea of how to switch between the two properly before I go ahead and copy the contents of advanced into default? Thanks! 🙂

Try to add the Header Control to the Default.aspx

I've added this in. I can't see it in our test environment but I can see it locally. Is there a setting that controls whether it's rendered?