Component Help

Is there a way to merge this day/time stamp tutorial (http://www.livejournal.com/users/exotic_kittenv/161805.html) with this tutorial (http://www.livejournal.com/community/component_help/46728.html)? Thanks!

I'm not that new to component anymore, but there are still a few things that aren't working for me that are kind of annoying.

On my mini-calendar, it is outlining my active dates, but not my inactive ones. Can anyone help? Thanks!

I can't figure out how to change my component width. :(
They're wide and screwed up, lol. Please help!

Someone just recently bought me a paid account and I can't seem to figure out the Component style, it's frustrating. Anyway... my main questions are placing a header above the entries like so desuete and also getting the little side scrollbars like here unhappyending. Can someone offer insight on where I'm supposed to change this?!

I know this has probably been dealt with before and i'm sorry. I just cant seem to get the hang of the information, lol.

This is my lj sammyjayne and i want to put a small banner at the top of my page. How do i do this?

Thanks in advance.

Sam
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*sigh* Okay, I just posted, and I read through pretty much all of the tutorials and I'm still lost. It's funny how different S2 is from S1; but anyhow, like I said I'm trying to get it to look like unhappyending, the width, the sidebar scrollbar, header, etc. I followed the tutorial here and entered those into my layers; however, when I tried entering a link to the "header" area, nothing happened. I don't know if I'm supposed to be using these codes, and even if I am, I don't know how to mess around with all these "$" and "*" symbols that I'm not used to. Would someone be willing to go through exactly what I'm supposed to do?

ok i am having issues with flatbox style it keeps sending me errors like this
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EDIT: it has been fixed thank you!