Theme development

I need some help here, my situation is strange.

When IE finishes loading my page, all bullets/arrows disappear on my page left menu: http://youfolder.com
When i do a mouse over a link, the corresponding bullet/arrow appear, but some bullets never appear.

FF has no problem.

Can anybody guide me to solve this issue?

I am attemping to build a custom theme for Drupal. I have been working on overwriting drupal theme_ functions, however, with some functions such as page or comment, I get an function redeclaration error from the engine. Below is the error and the code I am using. Any help would be appreciated.

Code in template.php:

function phptemplate_comment() {
return _phptemplate_comment('comment');
}

Error:

I apologize if this is covered somewhere. A cursory look in the handbooks and forums turned up nothing.

I need to move my breadcrumbs over a few pixels. I made the change in the style.css file of the /garland directory. It is saved on the server, but I have not seen the changes take effect.

#wrapper #container .breadcrumb {
  position: absolute;
  top: 15px;
  left: 60px;
  z-index: 3;
}

left: was 30px so I bumped it to 60, but I've seen no movement.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Don

I'm trying to get access to the user object to display a logged in user's name on the theme. Does anyone have any ideas how to get to this (other than altering the Smarty engine)? I'm hoping the variable is already in smarty and I just don't have the correct name.

Thanks!

The website i am developing has user accouts, but the owners of the site don't want login links or boxes to show up on any page. Instead I want to create a page and put those controls inside. how do i do this? this way, the only way to get to the login site is to specify the URL, which only privileged people will know.

something like www.example.com/private_login, can i simply create a page and put the correct PHP code inside? In that case, what is the correct PHP code?

please can someone help i've been running oround reading so much usless or badly explained so everyhting i have tried has failed ...... the instructions on the meta site didn't help.

i really like this theme and would love to get it working 100% but i'm having trouble
i don't know a lot still new to drupal system ....can someone point me in the direction of something that can help me out cause i have tried the hand book and looked around for far to long now i've wasted a lot of time so anything will help

regards
peace