Theme development

hi all,

i'm using smarty theme engine with drupal v47b6.

is settings.php the right place to place theme-wide smarty settings?

e.g., if i want to reassign the delimiters for smarty tags used in a given theme to, say, '', in my own code, i'd include

define('SMARTY_DIR', '/path-to/smarty/libs/');
require(SMARTY_DIR . 'Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->left_delimiter = ' $smarty->right_delimiter = ':ZZZ>';

in my site's top-level 'index.php'.

How do you group comments into a containing div? Like this:

<div id="container">comments</div>

This way it will be possible to apply a style to them as a whole, for instance deciding where they should show up in the page.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I am using Drupal v4.6

I checked the Chamelion box to try something, and now I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: menu_primary_links() in /home/brainshr/public_html/themes/chameleon/chameleon.theme on line 56

How can I undo this?

From page.tpl.php say I want to have the node title
print $title

to appear in the admin section, but not for any other page. Is there a easy way to do this?

I am using the menu module to list my taxonomy as menu items. I am not sure what module is installed or whatever, but my URLs keep getting changed when I don't want them to.

For instance: When I set up a new menu item and type in "taxonomy/term/56" as the URL. It automatically get rewritten as something like "weapons/rifles" (my category names). I don't want this. Does anybody know what happened?

I am using drupal 4.7 beta 5.

i have installed nice menu 4.7 module. It works fine on bluemarine theme. But when i use custom theme, the menu is no longer styled by nice menu, but has standard menu view.

can any one help me?