Weellll, I've wasted most of my weekend on it, and I can officially say CSS positioning is the pits.
Long live tables!!! I have a screen-shot for you css junkies that I'll post in a new thread, so this one doesn't get laiden down with a tables vs tabless discussion.
OK, the story, I started moving the theme over, I finished the php stuff really quick. Then started working on the html.
I knew I was in trouble when I saw a style named .tablenasty... It was. (I kid you not, it's in there several times)
The guy was either a genius or a madman, either way, I can't make heads or tails how to open up some room for the {THEME_SELECT_LIST} {LANGUAGE_SELECT_LIST} and {LANGUAGE_SELECT_FLAGS} without all of the tables getting pushed out of joint.
I had also seen where there were a few mentions of the theme being slow. Looking at the graphics it was obvious the person who put it together was meticulous about making the smallest possible images. Good for download times, but bad for making browsers assemble backgrounds out of 2 pixel images.
The menu's and buttons are all sliced the same way.
So I figure, (after hacking at the html for a few hours) I'll just redo it. I took a screenshot of the layout in a browser, and sliced it up again in photoshop into respectable pieces. Then I had the bright idea, I will try to do this with CSS. I didn't say table-less, I've already been down that road. So I figured a Table-Light version of the theme might suffice.
I found out really quick that IE was going to be a royal pain, so I figured I'd just get the base working with firefox, and then do a hack session later to make IE work.
Long story short, I hate CSS-P even more now, and a theme that only looks as good as most other CSS driven thems (no offense to some of the other theme builders, but css is broken at this moment, even with the best of the best browser which currently is reputed to be firefox.) Don't start flames yet, I'll start another thread I promise.
Anyway, that brings me to my current spot. The theme doesn't look bad in Firefox, but IE mangles it horribly. I'm at a standstill with it, so I'm going to post the theme as is, and if anybody can work with me on cleaning up and hacking the CSS I'd much appreciate it.
NOTE: This theme has already been modified to work on CPG_1.32, however it isn't ready for production. Transmission.zip should include everything you need.
Not all graphics are from the original author, if you want the original graphics and html, you'll need to download the 1.2 theme for SF.NET.