[eluser]tonanbarbarian[/eluser]
ok you have so much going on that it is not possible to diagnose this issue
but what i suspect is that in some of your code somewhere you are changing the $this->content['content'] when you do not expect it
in fact i notice that you have the following
Code:
$this->content['content'] .= $this->_renderFrontendOutput('brands/_front_entry_brands_list.php',array('brands'=>$brands));
but inside renderOutput you do the following
Code:
$this->content['content'] = $this->parser->parse($link, $array, true);
in fact you have supplied the wrong code
you have supplied the _renderOutput method and not _renderFrontendOutput