Okay, here is what's going on. I have created a variety of templates for different pages on my site, mostly with different sidebars linking to various sections. I have opted to make my "Blog" section not the front page and I am using another page instead. When I edit the default page.php template (which the blog should be run off of) it is doing something screwy with the CSS that is making the content section run on top of the sidebar.
So I messed around with the CSS and the PHP files for the default page and sidebar to try to fix the problem and nothing worked. I thought maybe it was a DIV problem or something. Then I tried using one of my other templates on the page (which all work fine) just as a test to see if it was recognizing the changes I was making in my CSS and PHP files. When I uploaded one of the other templates onto the "Blog" page, nothing happens. It does not load the sidebar from the other template like it should, it basically ignores the fact that there is another template altogether and resorts to this default template (which should be working, I see nothing wrong in my CSS or PHP that would make this happen. I'm a beginner/novice but I know what I am doing enough to have no problems with my other page templates, so something is definitely weird).
Does anybody have any idea what is going on? This is driving me absolutely nuts and I need to get this project finished ASAP!! Help!