Why is it so

I have found that I can not run the orca forums with a lot of templates, why is this and is there away around this problem

New Attitudes

This is because the forums have been updated several times during the last 10 releases of dolphin 7

The templates must be updated as well to match the version. If they do not work with the forums, that means the developer has not updated the template to work with your dolphin version.

The solution, complain to the template developer. If people do not mention it to them, they will not fix it.

If those templates are in the market here, then you should also mention it to a moderator if the vendor refuses to fix it because those templates should be removed from the market.