Title and description not displaying on my forum

Any idea why the title and description of my forum would not be displaying at all and how I could go about getting them to appear? (see screenshot of where it is missing above). I have the menu item set to frontpage layout. Or is there a module that uses the frontpage layout I could place on a page so I could get another title in that way? I didn't see anything but maybe I'm missing something simple?

Second question- is there a way to put a more obvious log-in box for existing users on the right hand sidebar?

Thanks for any help!