well its strange that im responding to my own post but Ive found a work around and just in case anyone else runs into the problem i thought Id report it here for posterity.
so without futher ado:
I changed the following line to call the literal name of my first section in this case 'business' rather than using the variable "section".
fixed (Score:1)
so without futher ado:
I changed the following line to call the literal name of my first section in this case 'business' rather than using the variable "section".
[% Slash.selectTopic('tid', tid, 'business', 1) %]
for some reason section had a bad value so that call to selectTopic wasnt returning anything.
--DrewSpud