I apologize in advance if this has been addressed before, I did do several searches and found threads that applied, but alas, they didn't solve my problem. I don't have the outer left column on my index page, but do on the secondary pages and that is where the mysterious vertical space followed by a horizontal line occurs.

meganstestsite2.com

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
Megan

did you add a widget area to the header?
are you displaying it on all pages?

Not in the header, but in the index page. The slider is not displayed on the secondary pages, but is a widget inserted in the main template.

Have you used a code examiner like FireBug to look at the area in question?

Thanks so much for your suggestions, Juggledad. I just ran firebug and I couldn't find anything that could be causing this gap and horizontal line. It is just so weird. I may have played with the WordPress css files on this site, so I'm uploading the original files now, replacing anything I might have screwed up.

Any other ideas if this doesn't work?

Megan

Nope, didn't work.

how many widget areas do you have and what are they?

There are 14 custom widget areas:

Right Sidebar

Left Inner Sidebar

Right Inner Sidebar

"logo (this isn't being used. I can't seem to delete it, perhaps because of the " in front of the name)

"right_side_header (This isn't being used either, same as above)

Slider

social_media

right_of_slider

support_title

adopt_title

volunteer_title

support_content

adopt_content

volunteer_content

featured_pets

happy_tales

try this, put a text widget into every widget area with the name of the widget area in the text and see what you see.

What a good idea!

Well, some of the text boxes showed up, but I installed a plug in that allows me to choose which pages the elements in widget area show up on and the text boxes showed up on the secondary pages if I didn't restrict them, but weren't there if I did.

Thanks for your help, JuggleDad. I appreciate your efforts, but I've decided to scrap the whole thing and start over.