Not sure if this was possible to do any other way but I added the breadcrumbs at the bottom of our forum listing and topic listing by copying and modifying a couple of files.

first the template spHead.php modified to the attached spLowerBreadcrumbs

then the /templates/desktop/spHeadDesktop.php to the attached /templates/desktop/spLowerBreadcrumbsDesktop.php

I then inserted the following bit of code into the spForumViewDesktop.php and spTopicViewDesktop.php where it was suitable.

# ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
# Load the lower breadcrumbs
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spHeadContainer', 'head');
/* sp_load_template('spHeadLower.php');*/
sp_load_template('spLowerBreadcrumbs.php');
sp_SectionEnd('', 'head');
# ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

A little css after that and it came out looking fairly nice:

The attached php files are uploaded as .txt files and they are hacks as I didn't even change the headings on them.

If there is any suggestions for improving or if there is already an easier method I'd love to hear it. 

I think my only question is the obvious one...  why did you not just re-use the sp_BreadCrumbs() function? Would not that have been easier?

Because I didn't know I could. Ha!

I knew there had to be a better way. 

🙂
Yes - you can copy and re-use; move the display tags about to do things in a different sequence; replace whole display tags with custom ones! Etc...