Magdalena Halford

excellent, that worked – thanks!

That almost worked – but the recent post title looks like a link (but is not a link) – you can see it here

That replaced the grey dot with the red arrow that is next to the links. I want the widget title to have no bullet at all, but I want to keep the red bullets next to the links.

I think it has something to do with this bit of code:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));

?>

<h2 class="bottombartitle"><?php _e('Recent Comments'); ?></h2>
	    <?php
		global $comment;
		if ( $comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved='1' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt
		DESC LIMIT 5") ) :
		?>	

		<ul class="list-archives">
			<?php
			foreach ($comments as $comment) {
				echo '<li><a href="'. get_permalink($comment->comment_post_ID) . '#comment-' . $comment->comment_ID . '"><font color="#222222">' . sprintf('%s...', substr(strip_tags($comment->comment_content), 0, 80)).'</font><br />'.get_comment_author($comment->comment_post_ID).'</a>';
			echo '</li>';
			}
			?>
		</ul>

For some reason the bit of code I posted caused some formatting in my question above – not sure how to avoid that, new here . . . just saw the node about putting code into backticks

I am using ‘corporate theme’.

Great – it worked! You just made my day. What is so simple for some can be such a puzzle for others. ??

Excellent! That helped the grey problem!

The only thing now is that the current page and the children pages in the sidebar menu no loger hover red (the other links still hover red). How do I add the hover red back into that?

I appreciate this sooo much – I feel silly having spent hours instead of just posting here. New to this, after all.