I am starting a new Page template to add thumbnails of all child pages on a page with this template. I got the thumbnails showing up properly, but the Footer on the page is left-aligned and incorrect. I looked at it and it has colspan="1" instead of the usual colspan="2". Can someone tell me why it is doing this when I'm simply using the same <?php get_footer(); ?> at the end of the template that is identical to index.php's Footer?

Full template (Work in progress):

<?php /* Template Name: Image Thumbs Template
*/ ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<h1>Title</h1>

<div class="maincontent">

<?php
query_posts('posts_per_page=5&post_type=page&post_ parent='.$parent);
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>

<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post_id, $size, $attr ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I can't link to the site, as it's a client's dev environment - but it simply includes <td id="footer" colspan="1"> instead of "2". A manual fix would be ok too, as I can simply hardcode it into this one page.

disable all your plugins and see what happens

Just disabled all plugins and it's the same.
I noticed it's very similar to what this guy was getting: http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=15624

try starting your code with th efollowing - which is the begining lines of index.php

<?php 
list($bfa_ata, $cols, $left_col, $left_col2, $right_col, $right_col2, $bfa_ata['h_blogtitle'], $bfa_ata['h_posttitle']) = bfa_get_options();
get_header(); 
extract($bfa_ata); 
global $bfa_ata_postcount;
?>

That fixed it, thanks a lot for your help as always juggledad.

Can I ask a followup question about this Template?

I ended up with the Template code below, but the subpages show up in alphabetical order. Usually you could add "<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order'); ?>", but I'm a bit lost about where to add the argument:

PHP Code:

<?php /* Template Name: Image Thumbs Template
*/ ?>

<?php 
list($bfa_ata, $cols, $left_col, $left_col2, $right_col, $right_col2, $bfa_ata['h_blogtitle'], $bfa_ata['h_posttitle']) = bfa_get_options();
get_header(); 
extract($bfa_ata); 
global $bfa_ata_postcount;
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

  <h1>Reviews</h1>

<?php $pages = get_pages(array('child_of'=>164)); ?> 
  <?php foreach ($pages as $page): ?>
    <div class="reviews"><h6>
      <?php echo '<a href="' . get_permalink( $page->ID ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $page->post_title ) . '">';
      echo $page->post_title;
      echo '</a>'; ?></h6>

      <?php echo '<a href="' . get_permalink( $page->ID ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $thumbnail->post_title ) . '">';
      echo get_the_post_thumbnail($page->ID, 'thumbnail');
      echo '</a>'; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endforeach; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

This is a real fun template to add a grid of subpage titles and thumbnails if anyone wants to use it.