Theme development

Hi,
in order to create different themes on the basis of XTemplate, I copied the xtemplate directory to a new one and made the changes, I thought, needed. Then my troubles started. The "new" theme still collided with the old one and everything I changed produced another error.
Anybody here who has gone through this before and knows what to do? I like the XTemplate, and don't want to create a new theme.

Thank you in advance

Falko Hartmann

PS.: I don't need the special xtemplate options, if that simplifies the problem.

I'm trying to adapt the links that show under a posting on my site (edit posting, add comments, x reads ...) but I have no clue where to change this.
I know I can disable any of those items in the administration section, but that's not what I want to do: I want to change the order in which they appear on the front page.

The theme seems to display correctly with Mozilla, but not with IE.
When there is a blog entry, the home page displays to wide and you need to scroll on the right do use it

see what I mean here
http://66.227.22.180/blog/

how can I correct this?

tia

marco

I'm trying to do a new theme for my site and would like to change the look of the user and search forms. Can someone point me to the documentation for doing this?

Regards,
Joe Cotellese.
www.clearstatic.org
Digital Media News

is there a way/place to see thumbnails+ of each and every theme to get an idea of look/feel of these themes without needing to download/install, etc.? i'm a non-techie just trying to make a decision

Sorry for the silly question here.

I'm not a big fan of ordered lists (bullet points) being used in the blocks. I'd like to remove them. The problem is, I honestly can't figure out where the

< u l > < l i >
< / l i > < / u l >

gets set. Does anyone know? I've searched through almost all the mocules and my theme.

Sorry for the newbie question!

Geoffrey