Theme development

Is there a way to show the actual text for a dropdown or multilist item instead of just displaying the number?

I am using something like this:

print $node->flexinode_25

and I will just get a number like 1,2,3 or 4 outputted.

I would prefer to have the actual label for that dropdown be displayed.

I have tried doing:

print $node->flexinode_25->label

but that doesn't seem to work.

I am writing a new theme based on the box_grey PHPTemplate. I want to modify the way the sidebar-left section appears. BY default, its in its own little table. This looks good, but I want to modify how the username appears. I want to put it in bold, or with a picture.
When i look at the page.tpl.php, i see a section like this:

if sidebar left != ""
td=sidebar
print $sidebar-left
/td
endif

The HTML this generates looks like this:

hi there , i am quite new with drupal ,
i have to setup a site with drupal , with different sections ,
i want to know if i can assign different themes to different pages

is this possible , and how can this be done ,
if there is an artikle about this anyware , please let me know

Hello,

I have followed that tutorial: http://drupalart.org/phpbb to have forums who look like phpbb.

Everything is working fine now but I had to disable the function:

I am by no means a confident css hack, but I am patient and clever and can reverse engineer a css file like anyone else.

However, I cannot figure out why this looks good in one browser and terrible in another. I think I am bound to struggle with this quite a lot. I have a div area ending but bumping another field since the text overflows, if that makes sense.

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