masgra, thanks for your reply again dude..
i realised why i couldnt find the snippets of code u guys were pasting.. it isnt actually in the tpl file.. or rather it is there, but it has no / or missing words etc. it seems fine to me
{else}{$LANG.please} [url="clientarea.php"]{$LANG.loginbutton}[/url] or [url="register.php"]{$LANG.clientregister}[/url]{/if}
this is latest version of whmcs im using, so this is nothing i've done i edited absolutely nothing inside the templates (i designed my site specifically so i wouldn't have to play around with things i dont know about)
whats the deal?