Excellent explanation! Thank you! I really don’t know anything about php, codes, whatever…and I guess the theme I chose sucks because none of the codes you suggest are anywhere to be found. My functions.php has the following:

<?php
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebars’) )
register_sidebars(2);

?>

I can’t find any “before” or “after” anywhere. The theme has sidebars.php, sidebar1.php, and sidebar2.php and the identifiers you speak of don’t exist there. Any clue?