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Thanks for all the feedback!

I realized I was running an older version of Firefox and when I upgraded just now – viola! All fixed.

Thanks again.

Thanks so much for all of your help. A friend went in and tweaked some stuff (fixed it w/out the footer getting wonky). It’s still off but not so much that I shouldn’t close this thread.

Thanks again.

ladydelaluna – You are right; that’s crazy that it should be there. I’m actually not using the header as anything but a 20px tall spacemaker at the top, so I went ahead and removed the background image from the CSS but it didn’t fix anything. (Still, it shouldn’t have been there so needed cleanup.) My header file is pretty much empty, with just an open and close <div> for the header.

podz – I also tried to juggle the sidebar and content in the index (though it is the way the template came) but it didn’t change anything (except reversing the problem, sidebar on top, content on the bottom, still with the break) so I put it back.

This is probably not relevant, but this is my first time using WP on a blog, having used MT to design dozens of others. I’ve seen this problem before on MT, but it was usually, as was mentioned, a too-big big image breaking the box, or a div tag missing or left open – something really obvious. I hope it’s that simple this time. ??

That said, I appreciate all of your suggestions and keep them coming. I’m willing to try anything to get this back in shape. Thanks.

Just to cover all my bases, I just made both images much smaller and took out the 460-wide ads, and still, the sidebar is stuck to the bottom of the page. Grr.

Background image: #page {background:#ffffff url(images/pagebg.jpg) repeat-y top;}

This is technically the background image that came with the Orchid template. I tried to replace it with an edited version – https://smittenkitchen.com/uploads/2006/07/pagebg2.jpg – which caused the sidebar to fall to the bottom. I tried to “undo” it by putting the original pagebg back in and it didn’t fix it.

As for saving the stylesheet – no, not really, though I know this is inadvisable. I make only ONE change at time, so if anything goes wrong, I can backtrack and fix it. This time, going back didn’t fix it. Lesson learned.

I hope this helps! Thanks again.

Thanks Don – I tried taking 1) taking out the two images, 2) widening the text column to 600 and the page to 900, 3) just widening the page to 900, 4) removing the background image (which is not showing) altogether and nothing is working. And the thing is, the posts were fine for the weeks I’ve been tweaking this – it was only when I was tweaking the background graphic that it all went to hell.

Any other suggestions? Oh, how I would love to sort this out…

[I seem to have posted simulatenously with others. I’m trying this again, will let you know how it goes. Thanks!]