DotNetNuke - Fixing a Strange Blog Module Error

It always makes me nervous when I have to crack open the source code for someone else's component, but that's pretty much what you have to do to get the DNN blog module to work correctly for registered users (this is evidently not a problem for admin-level users):

DotNetNuke Blogs - The server tag is not well formed, oh
my!
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryID/1496/Default.aspx

...turns out having a unicode accented "e" character is probably not a good thing. ;)

DotNetNuke - How to set the container width

Lately I was having an issue with a particular skin I have been using for a DotNetNuke-based site I'm working on- namely how to get the main content of the page to fill the whole page instead of constraining to 750 pixels or so.

Thankfully, I found the following post describing how to accomplish the adjustment, which ultimately was pretty straigtforward, though I wasn't thrilled with changing the skin's core CSS:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/48/threadid/127044/scope/posts/Default.aspx

Seems like this should have been a setting somewhere. Oh well...