I got a friend to assist. He said this:
It was including jQuery a second time in the header and not using the appropriate WP functions for doing so. Otherwise, the theme would know jQuery was already being loaded and would skip loading it again.
This is my new header…
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php wp_title('?', true, 'right'); ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo get_option('sitekeywords', 'the, tags, web sites, clean, dark, useful, etc...'); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
<!-- including css style -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" />
<style type="text/css">
<?php
$bg = get_option('bg_img', '');
echo "body{
color:#".get_option('body_font_color', '555555').";
font-family:".get_option('body_font', 'Tahoma').";
font-size:".get_option('body_font_size', '13')."px;
background-color:#".get_option('bg_color', 'd6dbdd').";
";
if($bg != ''){ echo "background:url(".get_option('bg_img', '').");"; }
echo "
}
.portfolio_box_skin_3{
width:";
$pmin = get_option('portfolio3_thumb_width', '270') + 20;
echo $pmin."px;
}
.blog_box_skin_3{
width:";
$pmin = get_option('blog_thumb_width', '620') + 20;
echo $pmin."px;
}
.portfolio_box_skin_2{
width:";
$pmin = get_option('portfolio1_thumb_width', '270') + 20;
echo $pmin."px;
}
";
?>
</style>
<!-- including javascripts (jquery, swfObject, prettyPhoto) -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/jquery.anythingslider.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/jquery.easing.1.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/jquery.tabs.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/jquery.prettyPhoto.js"></script>
<?php if (get_option('cufon_active', 1) == '1'): ?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/cufon.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo get_option('cufon_font', get_bloginfo('template_url').'/js/Neo_Sans_Std_400-Neo_Sans_Std_400.font.js'); ?>"></script>
<?php endif; ?>
<!--[if IE 6]>
<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/DD_belatedPNG_0.0.8a-min.js"></script>
<script>
DD_belatedPNG.fix('img, div, .back, .forward, #thumbContainer, #thumbNav a, .portfolio_zoom');
</script>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/css/ie7.css" />
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
$(document).ready(function ()
{
$('#myform').FormValidate({
phpFile:"<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/includes/get_mail.php?email=<?php $email = get_option('siteadmin_email'); if ($email != "") { echo get_option('siteadmin_email'); } else { bloginfo('admin_email'); } ?>",
ajax:true
});
});
-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- begin site container -->
<div class="container">
<div class="header_bg"></div><!-- this container header bg -->
<!-- begin site content -->
<div class="content">
<!-- begin site inside content -->
<div class="site_content clearfix">
<!-- begin header container -->
<div class="header_container">
<!-- begin logo -->
<div class="logo">
<a>"><img src="<?php echo get_option('sitelogo', get_bloginfo('template_url').'/images/logo.png'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>"/></a>
</div>
<!-- end logo -->
<!-- begin search -->
<div class="page_search">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/get_search.php'); ?>
</div>
<!-- end begin search -->
<div class="cleardiv"></div>
<!-- begin menu holder -->
<div class="menu_holder">
<!-- begin menu container -->
<div class="menu_container">
<ul class="site_menu">
<?php if (get_option('disable_home_page', 1) == '1'): ?>
<li<?php if (is_home()) { echo " class=\"current_page_item\""; } ?>><a>"><span><?php echo get_option('home_page_name', 'Home'); ?></span></a>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php
add_filter('wp_list_pages','remove_title');
function remove_title($content) {
$content = preg_replace('/title=\"(.*?)\"/','',$content);
return preg_replace('@\<li([^>]*)>\<a([^>]*)>(.*?)\<\/a>@i', '<li$1><a$2><span>$3</span>',$content);
}
wp_list_pages('title_li=&sort_order=ASC&sort_column=menu_order');
?>
</div>
<!-- end menu container -->
</div>
<!-- end menu holder -->
</div>
<!-- end header container -->
<div class="cleardiv"></div>
