Okay so the last hurdle that I cannot seem to overcome is this:
If you go to the website (http://www.pixelatedkarma.com/s.gwo/) you will see that I have:
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The problem is in the second set of divs (the centered div with the child divs inside) the background of the parent div has a background image which should stretch to the bottom of the page, but what is happening is the parent div is not stretching to the bottom of the content (both sidebars and the content) and the copyright information is placing itself in the middle of the front page post.
Okay starting to make progress, on problem 1 I was using class instead of id which is why the css attributes were not being read, so now that is fixed….yay! now to figure out the rest of the issues!