5.0 is all about themes for display preferences… so you can just change up your sp theme to do what you want.. we do recommend that you create your own sp theme instead of editing ours: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/

just move the template tag that outputs the unread posts to where you want it on your page… in this case, since they appear on the group view page, its the group view template file spGroupView.php… you want to find the template tag:

sp_RecentPostList(‘show=10’, __sp(‘Unread and recently updated topics’));

and move it within the file to where you want it to appear…