With just a few tweaks here and there, the basic blue and white skin has returned. Electrin had commented that the skin was broken when I first met him – in reality, I had never bothered to fix it last year.
Now if I could figure out a firm definition of when to use div, when to use span, and when to use class vs. id, I’ll be really happy. For now I’m doing a lot of guessing, but at least it’s educated guessing that validates!
UPDATE: I didn’t test this one in Mozilla (I moved on to other code things I needed to work on), but it has been pointed out in the comments that it’s jacked in Mozilla and IE 6. I have no clue how to fix it. I will have to beg the CSS code gods for help. Meanwhile, if you click on it in those browsers, you might need this alternate way to get back to the default template.