Thank you drupal. I've finally given up making custom websites and doing everything by hand. I'm currently learning my way around drupal and even working out a few bugs in themes as I go.
I'm also modifying this theme to suit my personal preferences more as time goes by. This is actually a fun, and nice departure from the rigors of job hunting and teaching myself c++, and fighting with xcode, and bending kde on mac to my will (still working on that one) etc, etc.