Orca forum RSS feeds trouble.

I have a dolphin 7.0.7 site with the Orca forum. The RSS feeds work fine inside the forum until I switch to my custom template. I have edited the params.php as instructed inside the modules/boonex/forum/layout/my template  folder. I have recompiled the languages. I have even done a fresh install of Dolphin and still have the same problem.
 The error is this:
  XML Parsing error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
location: http://mysite.com/forum/?action=rss_updated_topics
line number 2 column number 1.


 I did some extensive research and found many reporting an extra space outside the following script:
<xml version=1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0">

Any new suggestions will be very much appreciated.

Here is the url for the error page if it helps.

http://friendlyfantasy.com/forum/?action=rss_updated_topics

Bill and Deb
Quote · 4 Sep 2011

Does your template have any Jscript in it like a gallery? If yes you probably have a conflict with D7 jscripts.

Quote · 31 Jan 2012
 
 
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