Hi,
An alternative of the removal of the moderators column template.
This one also removes the first column, which contains the light bulb - instead an invisible column (for the light bulb) is in the cell with the forum name / description.
This enables you to have an invisible light bulb if there are no new posts. and saves having a long column of the same 'off' bulbs.
The advantage here is that it is very obvious when there are new posts, as the icon then appears. Under the original template it would have meant an obvious blank column with a table border, if this method had been adopted.
Attached is the new ubbthreads template (txt) - replace contents of ubbthreads.tmpl with attached file & a transparent light bulb for uploading to the images folder.
The transparent light bulb is of course optional.
Demo -
On this page Regards,
Ian
at the moment - but expanding all the time....) 
