At first I was using the default skins, but they seemed to cause my problems with the heights of the panes(it appeared the content and right pane were somehow locked together on their height. So I created a new skin.ascx file and started adding tables and cells. I added a "skinmaster" table like the defaults and set the align property to center, and in the css tried to center by adding align:center; to the skinmaster style, but neither seem to work. It stays locked to the left hand side of the browser and fills in the right side with white(current background color of the "pagemaster" table). Over all its coming along rather nicely.. I even finally got the menu to be part of the skin rather than a module...though I'm sure most people with any clue as to what they were doing would have been done the same day they started.