Never mind below. Just took the if statement from the extended categories template and placed it in the same place in the views\categories\view.tpl and it worked.
Wonderful mod. Question on Category pages. Is there a way to modify the templates to have the list of sub-categories display the product count?
The Category list in my left side box is displaying the product count for each sub-category. When I click on a parent category the central box displays the category pic and below it the list of sub-categories. I am not getting the subcategory product count to display here. There isn't a block to edit for this so I am assuming I can modify a template.