I have gone back into my files and found that my files match what is shown above already.
I went back into everything further and looked and as stated earlier, it was not working.
I remembered my stopping the smarty.php for looking for changes (to speed up things) and I decided to clear the template cache file to see if it made a difference.
I did not remember if I had done that or not. Upon clearing the cache file, I tested the mod, and it worked...
Looks like my issue was a simple need to clear the cache files out to enguage the mod into action.
Thanks for the attempt at help though.
