After reading through the pages here looking for answers to adverts not showing after a successful install.. all i seemed to find was others asking the same questions and getting no replies, and then there were the really ignorant posters that came back and replied to their own post for help just to say 'its okay i fixed it !' without posting what they did !

Well heres my answer to my issue of adverts not showing after a good clean install, actually the third good clean install trying t get it to work ! ..
I'm running 3.0.12 and using the lucid lime theme.
After the install everything was there in the ACP and i configured the ads and entered all the google adsense code etc ... no ads showing in any of the views on the forum... damn.
When setting up the ads i selected the groups that i did not want to see the adverts until i had finished setting it up and amending the formatting as i wanted it, so only admins had visability.
In desperation after 3 install attempts and going through all the coding over and over i decided to make the adverts visable to everyone and de-selected all the groups.. the adverts all appeared !!

So i started scratching my head as to why all of a sudden i could see them even though i had not selected admins ... so off into the ACP i trottted and started digging... i took a look at my username and what group it was in .. sure enough it said member of group ADMINS .. it also listed me being a member of Registered Users .. this was the reason i could not see them ! even though ADMINS was selected as my default group, the fact i also had the registered user group listed blocked me from seeing the adverts !
So.. those of you banging your heads on desks and keyboards tryig to get this mod to actually show the adverts, go check what group(s) you are shown as being a member of, because there is a good chance that like me, when you added yourself to the admins group, you didn't bother removing the registered users group as an option.
Glad its working, because it works a treat ! although i was not too happy with some of the placements, but a little formatting soon sorted that and for a cleaner look i removed all the boxing and just placed the advert on its own centered.
Hope this helps some of you trying to get this working..