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The "header.php" file is dreadfully messy, so it's not easy to edit unless you know some PHP and have a decent text editor.  However, if you don't need things to appear and disappear based on user flags, adding things without breaking the PHP code isn't that hard.

To remove the title, search for this and remove it:

    <b><?=$cfg['op_title'];?> -</b>

To remove the login status, search for this:

    <div align="right">
<? if (!empty ($OekakiU)) { ?>
        <?=$langop_common_loggedin?> <b><?=w_html_chars($OekakiU);?></b>
<? } else { ?>
        <?=$langop_common_loggedin?> <b><?=$langop_word_guest?></b>
<? } ?>
    </div>

REPLACE WITH:

    <div align="right">
    </div>

In that area, any line that begins with a vertical bar ("|") is not PHP code, and you can sandwich links in there.  The trick is that you need to keep the Javascript code for the rollovers intact for each link.  To replace the FAQ with rules and the PaintChat links, search for this:

    | <a href="faq.php" onmouseover="op_roll_change(0,'view','search','admin','draw','login2')"><?=$langop_word_faq?></a>

REPLACE WITH:

    | <a href="rules.html" onmouseover="op_roll_change(0,'view','search','admin','draw','login2')">Rules</a>
    | <a href="http://www.site.com/paintchat/" onmouseover="op_roll_change(0,'view','search','admin','draw','login2')">PaintChat</a>

That depends if you just want to beautify the header, or actually change and add the links.

You can use CSS in a custom template to change the positions of the header elements, to allow for a large banner or precisely positioned menu items.  The IDs for the rollover menus are "view", "login2", "admin", and "search" ("draw" is now empty).  Just put something like this in your template to move it to a specific position on the page, such as on top of a banner:

#banner {
   height: 150px;
}
#view {
   position: absolute;
   left: 14px;
   top: 70px;
}
#login2 {
   position: absolute;
   left: 14px;
   top: 70px;
}
#etc {
   ...
}

The rollovers will work as normal so long as you don't mess around with the "header.php" file.  Oh, and I highly recommend that you update to Wax 5.7.0 before doing this, since the latest version has a new template editor that is largely based on CSS, and makes making these changes a lot easier.  There is no more PHP code you have to edit by hand in the templates, which should make things easier for you. 

If you want to change the links, you'll have to edit the "header.php" file directly.  This is tricky, since there's a lot of conditions based on login status and permissions, and all the words are imported via a language file, so almost all the links are variables.  It's a real pain to change the links in Wax if you don't know PHP.  Wacintaki's header file is easier to edit, but that version of the oekaki doesn't have rollover menus like Wax does.