issue with multiple sidebars going bonkers, please help. thank you.

okies, so this guy wants to edit his site on a daily basis.
this is after i have already written the entire site in flash, well he changed his mind and had me rebuild the entire site in plain html and php. and i am no genius with php, but i muddle though.

well he finally told me the other day he wants to be able to edit the site on a daily basis.

i thought wordpress would be perfect for his needs.
my family gets to eat if i do these for him.

anyways. lol. enough rambling
my problem is this

i created the site, i created the functions.php
the code looks like

<?php register_sidebars(2, array('name'=>'sidebar %d')); ?>
<?php register_sidebars(4, array('name'=>'footer %d')); ?>

so i am thinking i have to make
2 sidebars named sidebar-sidebar1.php and sidebar-sidebar2.php
and 4 files
named
sidebar-footer1.php, sidebar-footer2.php,
sidebar-footer3.php, sidebar-footer4.php

so in my footer file i call for the footer side bars.

</div></div>
		<div id="content">
			<div id="col_holder">
		<?php get_sidebar('footer1'); ?>
		<?php get_sidebar('footer2'); ?><br />
        <?php get_sidebar('footer3'); ?>
  </div>

well, yes it opens these files, but when i go to the admin widget panel and drag and drop in a widget and save it, the widget does not show.

here is the code i am using on the footer1.php and so one it’s pretty all much the same

sidebar-footer3.php

<div class="col_sm_holder last">
			<div class="col_sm">

<?php if ( !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
   <li>{static sidebar item 1}</li>
   <li>{static sidebar item 2}</li>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
		        <div class="col_sm_bot"></div>
        	    </div>

well it shows the side bar, and says
'{static sidebar item 1}
{static sidebar item 2}
`

but it wont show the widgets.

??

i am very very sad and hungry i am really really hungry.

can someone please take the time out of your day to tell me why it’s not showing the widgets?

thank you so very very much.