So I woke up with a fresh mind and after an hour or two of tweaking code here and there and looking for a theme I kindof liked, I think I have my site running the way I wanted. I was able to hack the admin functions so I can now go directly to creating a new post (yay!), and I now have the “Schedule,” “Some More Favorites,” and my “Page” page all set up to use the new template. I also figured out how to get my yearly/monthly calendar to work with the new version… now just to see if I can get today’s date to blink like it did before.

Other fun stuff I found (having nothing to do with the upgrade) was the random-gallery image feature of my gallery. I don’t know for sure how much I like it… I have some strange pictures in my gallery, but for now it’s kindof neat over there on the right sidebar.