Thanks for the tip Kobra. I'm willing to give it a bash and after analysing (trying to understand the code) of both tpl_ezpages.php and ezpages.php it looks to me as though the "tpl" file is doing the actual defining of links for the sidebox. I've been trying to "get into" the FOR statement with an IF statement but just cannot find a way to effect a change. It is true that i dont really know what i'm doing as far as code but even when i write a very simple echo "hello" in there to understand it better what is happening, the word "hello" never makes it to my webpage.

If you dont mind could you give me a few more pointers. For example: Is it correct that tpl_ezpages.php actually writes the link names in the ezpage side box? (thereforei should be effecting the tpl_ezpages.php file?)
Should i be inserting a IF statement in the FOR loop? Any guidance you could offer would be of great assistance. sincerely arpeggio.

Btw my plan was to open an ezpage called "Log In". Then in tpl_ezpages.php i would do a check:
IF $var_linksList[$i]['name'] = "Log In"

if TRUE use the IF statement you sent me,
if FALSE just carry on as normal.