Theme development

Greetings all,

Let me start off by saying I am no programmer and it completely shows.
My eyes are bleeding, I've spent 4 days trying to figure out how to do this and would really appreciate some help.

I'm working on a theme for my site.
I have drupal 5.2 installed and I'm using Zen theme as the base for my theme.

I'm trying to customize $primary_links so that it will not only have active links, but also custom id's based on the link names/paths.
example of what i would like at the end:

<div id="navigation" class="menu withprimary ">
  <div id="primary" class="clear-block">
    <ul class="links-menu">
       <li id="home"><a href="/" >Home</a></li>
       <li id="about" class="active"><a href="/about">About</a></li>
       <li id="blog"><a href="/blog">Blog</a></li>
       <li id="portfolio"><a href="/portfolio">Portfolio</a></li>
   </ul>
 </div>

I've found this link which does exactly what i want, but for all menu blocks, i cant get it to work just for primary links:

http://www.nicklewis.org/node/843

the closet i've gotten is with this code in my template.php:

<?php

/**
* Implementation of theme_menu_links().
*
* Add active class to current primary-menu item links.
*/
function phptemplate_menu_links($links, $attributes = array()) {

if (!count($links)) {
return '';
}

im assuming need to catch this information in my node.tpl.php file but i have no idea what the $.... is called?

when i have more than X post on the the front page, the front page displays page numbers ( i am aware that i can limit the number of post on a page under content management) i would like to theme this

I apologize if this has been posted previously... I wasn't able to find anything from my searches.

I have defined my node type to have some images around the content so that it has a pretty little box.

What I would like to do is have this pretty box be around a single sticky node, but non-sticky nodes be enclosed in one large box.

I can't think of a site that does that off the top of my head, so here's the ASCII illustration of what I'm looking for:

Hi guys

I am doing a site but I've got a strange problem. For instance, if you go to this article

http://pergamo.pucp.edu.pe/willay/node/401

and you clic in "añadir comentario" at the bottom of the page ("add comment") it show you only the form comment but NOT the article above. Also notice, the left menu is hidden.

What am I missing?

Thanks

David.

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