[carpeperdiem]

Comment out the line means to place the dollar sign in front of the line.

#pages you want to block

NO! Not in smarty templates.

To comment out contents of a smarty template, use

{* content to comment out *}

I shoudl not have called the content of help.tpl "static"... the pages in help.tpl that you probably want to comment out so that you can make static links:

 <a href="help.php?section=contactus&amp;mode=update">{$lng.lbl_contact_us}</a>
<a href="help.php?section=business">{$lng.lbl_privacy_statement}</a>
<a href="help.php?section=conditions">{$lng.lbl_terms_n_conditions}</a>

SO -- make these lines:

{* <a href="help.php?section=contactus&amp;mode=update">{$lng.lbl_contact_us}</a>
<a href="help.php?section=business">{$lng.lbl_privacy_statement}</a>
<a href="help.php?section=conditions">{$lng.lbl_terms_n_conditions}</a> *}

THEN -- write your static pages in here. Or not -- use pages_menu.tpl for your static pages. There is more than one way to get content in here.

Remember, help.tpl is calling an include for pages_menu.tpl
- {include file="pages_menu.tpl"} -
so it doesn't matter where the links live.