Thanks for the rapid response - unfortunately, it does not seem to work. I added the [NOTOOLBAR] token to the top of the ForumView template.
I noticed that there was no [Toolbar] token - which I would have expected. Also - I can't see my changes in Desktopmodules/AF/config/templates when I updated through the Control Panel. Am I missing something very obvious here.
The ForumView template starts like
<%@ Register TagPrefix="af" Assembly="Active.Modules.Forums.40" Namespace="Active.Modules.Forums.Controls"%>
[NOTOOLBAR] <!-- I inserted this tag - there was no toolbar tag in here before-->
[BREADCRUMB]
[GROUPSECTION]
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="afgrid">
<tr>
<td class="afgrouprow" style="padding-left:10px;" width="100%">[GROUPNAME]td>
<td class="afgrouprow" style="text-align:right;padding-right:10px;">[GROUPCOLLAPSE]td>
tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
[GROUP]
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="afsubgrid">
<tr>
<td class="afheader">[SPACER:10:1]td>
<td class="afheader" width="100%" colspan="2">[TRESX:FORUMHEADER]td>