Thank you for the reply JellyBeen. I am surmising that you saw the "Hamasaki 1.6" in my footer, checked the theme's homepage and saw that version 1.7 was available. However, I downloaded the theme well after the reported 1.7 release date (18/2/09), and the current version available for download contains "<span><a href="http://www.jauhari.net/themes/hamasaki/" title="Free WordPress Theme: Hamasaki">Hamasaki 1.6</a> design by Nurudin Jauhari</span>" in the footer.php file. My point is that I believe that I have the latest version; I even checked the style.css and functions.php files which look identical to the original download on my computer.

The reason I resist just installing the theme cold again is that I have made several significant modifications by essentially changing the code using trial and error. I do not believe that my modifications have caused the problem because multiple people complain of the same problem on the theme's comment section. My issue is exacerbated by the fact that I only can check IE6 at work (I have a Mac with Safari and Firefox, I tried your link about Microsoft VMC but the story did not appear). My plan of attack is to modify style.css by adding "display: inline" to the sidebar section as you mentioned in an earlier post.

#sidebar {

display: inline;

float: left;
margin-left: -300px;
width: 300px;
}

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Kind regards, John