isermesh

Thanks so much, ladydelaluna!

My gosh.
What an idiot. I am.

IE is becoming the bane of my existence.
I made every replacement for white I could find. You can tell that it’s changing something because the fine line at the edge of the background image gets covered up by the sidebar background (something I’m sure I can fix later, but for now it’s a helpful sign). Still, though, the white space remains.
It seems like the ad code itself is extending itself too far. Out of curiosity I set the background color variable in the AdSense code call to the color I want, but even this only changed the background color within the banner that appears, not in the white space below.
Again, I’m out of ideas for trying to tease this thing out. Is there anything else you can suggest, ladydelaluna?

Hmm.. I’ve added the following line below the fonts specified, and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Should it go someplace else, perhaps?

#sidebar {
font: 1em ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background-color: #81392B;
}

Hmm…
I realize now that this problem is too involved to address in a forum.
Happily, I’ve found a solution that’s workable enough that I can leave it alone for now. There’s still 10px of space that I can’t account for, but life is short.
Thanks for your help, Samboll!

Here’s my index.php also:
https://paste.uni.cc/8891

Oops. Sorry. Here it is:
https://paste.uni.cc/8890

You’re right about FF. I believe the problem might lie somewhere in the margins and padding of my classes in the Loop, though. I’ve just thoroughly examined the current page source and there don’t appear to be any ‘s out of place.
Could it be the padding? I’ve tweaked it quite a bit and can’t find anything that’s out of place, but perhaps someone with a more trained eye than mine can see it…

Thanks! This works splendidly.

I’ve been trying to find a way to use the same key multiple times, and I got very hopeful when I read what Kafkaesqui wrote above, but when I tried the solution proposed within the Loop of my setup, it returns ALL values for the given key, not just for an individual post.
Coffee2code’s solution looked promising also, but it doesn’t offer any means of returning multiple values of the same key for a given post, and s/he appears not to be around anymore (coffee2code hasn’t written in to the WP forums in several months, according to their profile).
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I’d be obliged to hear from you!