well in all fairness i m not sure if it is the cause but i think you left the forum name and description empty, those would normally be in the first line
the file i am talking about is the overall_header.html
Edit: i would try removing the first line and if that does not correct it then try removing the second one too?? (after having backed up the original)
Edit 2: attached a black header

I spent some time this afternoon after reading all this again. The more I looked at those lines of code, the more it occurred to me that these lines were in fact artifacts of leaving the site name and description blank. Turns out you were correct all along, but didn't explain it in a way I understood. That's not YOUR fault - it's mine. At my age things don't come as easily as they did in my younger years:(
So since I'm not having much luck sleeping right now I went and removed the following:
- <td align="center" valign="middle"><h1>{SITENAME}</h1><span class="gen">{SITE_DESCRIPTION}</span></td>
- <td align="right" valign="top"> </td><td align="right" valign="top"> </td>
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and everything looks pretty good. The alignment is off now by maybe a few pixels, but not enough to worry about. I may just try making a new sitelogo_small that is larger and see what happens.
I have just one more lingering problem I can't figure out that I will put in another post - concerning the class ".quotecontents" and why changing it doesn't change the color of text added after a quote:(
Thanks for the help, Joshua - it IS appreciated.