I’ve developed a lot of templates myself. I just don’t understand how I’d have it iterate through the categories and display something like:
<h2>Category 1</h2>
<h2>Category 2</h2>
That wasn’t the problem. Here’s the solution for anybody else that needs it…
I had written my own plugin that accesses a different database than the default wordpress one. Since it wasn’t switching back to the wordpress database, it was causing a problem. Just had to select the correct DB after my plugin ran and we’re back in business.