Thanks for the tip, didn't make any difference though. I disabled everything except vbShout, vbNavTabs, and LiveStreaming. Made sure all three of those were updated to the latest version, still have no shoutbox displaying anywhere when set to 'disabled' and the code in the navbar template...
Just installed vbShout and setup instance1. Using the auto display 'after navbar' worked perfectly from the get-go to show the shoutbox on the forum home, but adding {vb:raw show.vbshout_instance1} to the navbar template and setting auto display to 'disabled' causes the shoutbox to not show at...