I thought I had this nailed. Got all the widgets to display with text. Loaded the left with Adsense and Amazon towers, the right with Navigation and Adsense. these all worked.
Got the center to display text, indicating it was corresponding.
I loaded in an Amazon 468 wide banner and the site went off the deep end.
First pass, the right sidebar migrated to the left side and all the content went down the left side in a narrow column.
Second pass, after deleting the widget and reinstalling, has nothing showing but the left sidebar and the header; no content and no right sidebar.
I can't get the site to revert to where it was before I did this, so Atahualpa may have changed something in the CSS, or I may have misspecified something.
I've looked in the CSS, but it's not obvious to me where the error could be.
Has this happened before? I don't think it's an Amazon-uses-frames problem, because the left sidebar has an Amazon area with an iframe and that displays.
Site www.barryharmon.com.
bakerboy