\o/ See post title. \o/ It took me all the goddamn morning but it works.
The templates (and template tags) I can only describe as "peculiarly mindfuck" - they're what took me the longest to figure out, especially the one peculiar archive path issue which I solved by pulling the publishing software up one directory (the software doesn't depend on configuration created when you install it, thank fuck, you just unzip it and upload it into a directory).

That, and Internet Exploder randomly closing on me when I clicked on links didn't help at all. Having to retype a new template from scratch four times because the piece of shit that is this browser closed on me (without so much as a "oopsie, fatal error" or similar warning) is not fun. At all.

If I wasn't leaving tomorrow, I'd be installing Opera or Firebird or similar Browser With A Brain.

But then, I might come back here in September (they asked me to... longish story and reflections on this saved for another entry). If I do, the first day I'm doing a round on all computers in here and installing a real browser.

[EDIT] Pivot works; but finding out how to configure a second weblog so it can also be used to update the news page is more effort than I care to make. Blogger, here I come...

[EDIT #2] On second thought, and to save explaining Blogger to supervisor guy, I'm just duplicating the Pivot folder and reconfiguring the program for the news page. It's not that big of a prog. :P