I ended up firguring out all but one last problem, and I had this problem before I changed my layout. I do NOT want the page to be so wide that there's the horizontal scroll bar. I had already chosen image placeholders (larger than 640x480) b/c some pictures were screwing up my friends page. So I don't know why my page is so big... and it's not just my friends page but my recents page too.
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##SHRINK/CENTER/HEADER CODE##
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function page_layout(Page p) {
var string k1Swidth = "90%";
var string k1Sheader_url = "http://pics.livejournal.com/princess_diary/pic/00036aqd";
var string k1Sheader_alt = "credit:Shonte' Brown (flwrgrl)"; # optional header image alt text
and so on and so forth...
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Do you want to see all my code or is that good enough?
And why is it giving me placeholders for all my images when I chose only larger than 640x480, even 100x100 icons???
Please help.
Thank you.