I get a huge error when I follow that link, too:

Warning: error_log(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/phoenix/css.buffistas.net/logs/20070404_log.html) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/httpd/vhosts/css.buffistas.net/httpdocs:/tmp) in /home/httpd/vhosts/css.buffistas.net/httpdocs/classes/giles.php on line 63

Warning: error_log(/home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/phoenix/css.buffistas.net/logs/20070404_log.html): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/httpd/vhosts/css.buffistas.net/httpdocs/classes/giles.php on line 63

April 4, 2007, 7:40 am Jon B.[211]: ERROR [2] file_get_contents(html/users/211.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory line 23 of file /home/httpd/vhosts/css.buffistas.net/httpdocs/css_edit.php

And there's lots more with arrays and shit.

Aha. I forgot I cheated my way into that. Let me do a check on the extra CSS file's existence first.

Y'all (yeah, y'all) are making me late for work.

Try now.

Ah, dammit--wrong rights.

I'll have a go at it when I get home from work. Gotta bolt now.

Actually, you might as well give it another shot. Those rights bitchings look like they're about the error log, which I haven't set up on this site yet.

CSS version bug:

I'm getting some weird results in IE6 on XP with the left column in threads (not so much on the main page). If you shrink the window horizontally, at a certain point just before the horizontal scroll bar appears, the left column starts migrating towards the center of the page. The effect is more marked when there's a long line of text with no spaces in it. The problem does exist on the main page as well, but since there are no long spaceless lines of text, it's not an issue.

Work is pretty slow today, so I'm looking into it and see if I can figure out a way to fix it.

I think this 3 column model [link] might work better than what you're using, ita. You want me to work on this some?

Never mind. The alistapart model has the same problem. And the other model I was looking at -- [link] -- has a similar problem, but with the right column.

I think that the b.org pages that only use two columns (like this page) may need two use a different model from the 3 column pages (like message center).

My fantasy was that every page would be 3 column, and you could switch the right one off when you didn't want it.

CSS doesn't care about fantasy.

Jon, any and all help is great.

It's a nice fantasy. Luckily, as best as I can tell, the pages we have that need three columns don't have any long spaceless text in the middle one, so the model you're using should be fine with them. It's the two column pages that need adjusting.

How different a model are you talking? Would HTML need to be rearranged (well, other than ids and classes and that jazz) or is it a primarily CSS fix?