[kirbybowl]

The technique I use when converting to a new template, is creating a new "temporary" blog for testing purposes (I make it private and remove it from my profile). I paste the template into the new blog. Then in Add Page Elements, I add all the elements that showed up in my current blog (such as HTML/Javascript boxes, link boxes, etc.). Then I can copy the HTML code from the temporary blog to the new blog without removing existing elements (with expand widgets not turned on when pasting the new HTML code). That way, the current blog won't have any downtime when changes are being made

Hope that helps...