Not sure if this is the correct place to put this but I recently got my side bar to work using divs instead of the default lists.
Here is the code I have in my functions.php...
<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array(
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => "</div>",
'before_title' => '<h2>',
'after_title' => "</h2>"
));
?>
and here is what I have on my sidebar page...
<div id="forumposts" class="welcome">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
What I need to know is how to make the custom sidebars using this div method