I have a gold account, and I'm getting ads on the forums - I think this is an error?

Le picture: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Lorcanwolf/fffffffffff.jpg

Yeah same here, they don't show up too often though. I've only seen 2 make an appearance.

I've had two pop up for me over the last week or so. I've never had that happen, though, so I was a bit confused. o_O

that is a billboard a user put up from the looks of it. Not many of them out there but ppl still put them up

As mentioned above, these are billboards. :) All users see them.