If you run your site thru some of the validation sites and error will be displayed if a new widget area has been added to the footer because of the '<p>' and '</p>' that surrounds it. This patch will remove the '<p>' and '</p>'.
edit footer.php and change lines 95-97 from
HTML Code:
<p>
<?php echo bfa_footer(); ?>
</p>
to
HTML Code:
<?php echo bfa_footer(); ?>