First thing to find out is if the HTML is being rendered correctly in your browser. If there's no hyperlink there, then something's clearly amiss. Click (in the browser menu) View then Source. In the new window search for 'Pprune Topic Titles' without the quotes. The cell entry (<td>) should look like this:
<td bgcolor="#e5e5e5" align="left" width="70%"><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="2" ><a href="showthread.php?s=&goto=newpost&threadid=49959"><img src="images/infopop/firstnew.gif" border="0" alt="Go to first new post" align="absmiddle" /></a>
<a href="showthread.php?s=&threadid=49959">Pprune Topic Titles</a></font> <font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1" ></font></td>
What's yours say ?
No JavaScript there, and although there's a bit of font /font nonsense (typical of so-called HTML 'generators'), that shouldn't be a problem.