Place the CSS in a php file but include <?php header("Content-type: text/css"); at the top.

The widgets work, but the sidebar it's in loses all styling.

Have you tried validating the markup? Sounds like you have something like a missing closing element. Or perhaps one closing element too many.

Also, how do I add a search bar to the lower right corner of my header and a subscribe button to the upper right?

Assuming that you know the code/template tags to use, it's just a case of placing them in the header and then, probably, floating them left and right respectively.

Could you run something like urldecode or html-entity-decode on the title to decode the special characters before passing them onto your javascript?

Given that WP uses PHP and you're using ASP, the best option would seem to be designing a theme that replicates your site's design. Probably not what you wanted to hear but I can't think of another way.

There's no way you can do this so that it work on every page or post. You can add some extra padding to your main content area to add whitespace after the content. Or you can use min-height to force your content to extend to a given minimum length. But you can't match the content height to the sidebar height when you have variable page content. and, possibly, variable sidebar content.

I've come across a couple of cases where an apparently inactive plugin has continued to cause problems. Sometimes, only the Phpmyadmin route seems to work.

Depending upon how you intend to use this - as the main Loop or as an additional loop, you might want to have a look at:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

Try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin. Or, if you know which plugin might be causing the problem, try just renaming that plugin folder via FTP.

Just mark the topic as 'resolved'.

You have an error in the template you're using for http://gator409.hostgator.com/~e2f/home/

Look at the title in the browser window. It's displaying </php,