[presson83]

Thanks Victor!

I went ahead and did the following and it now works properly, with the sort bar on the categories pages but not the individual product pages:

{if $product}
    {elseif $printable ne 'Y'}
          <div class="dialog-search-sort-bar">
        {if $selected eq '' && $direction eq ''}
        {include file="customer/search_sort_by.tpl" selected=$search_prefilled.sort_field direction=$search_prefilled.sort_direction url=$products_sort_url}
        {else}
        {include file="customer/search_sort_by.tpl" url=$products_sort_url}
        {/if}
      </div>
    {/if}

I tried doing an if with an || statement about products but it didn't work, so I just did an empty if and then the else if and it works! A bit of a hack, but it solves the issue which is what matters.