Is there a way of removing the star rating system from the forums or at least one or two of the forums? In some forums we feel that the star ratings are not appropriate for what the forums are being used for.
 
We have tried to change the HTML template for the forum list to hide the area where the star rating appears but any changes made do not appear to work. Changes to the HTML template also did not work to expand the column width of the Last Post column.
 
Any help you could give would be greatly appretiated.

You can remove the [POSTRATINGBUTTON] token from the TopicView template.

After you have made changes to a template in the control panel, save the template. Then go to the Forums page of the control panel, and click on the name of the forum that you wish to have the template used by. Change the Topic Display: from Default to TopicView. Save.

Thanks Ben, I've also managed to remove [POSTRATINGDISPLAY] from TopicsView as well which everyone here is very happy with.

Thanks for the help!