Problems with the "Chameleon" template for Drupal: didn't like the link colours, and the author and date on postings wasn't showing up.
For the colours issue, I had to go into the theme's CSS files directly and change them. Thing was, it didn't seem to work, so I gave up in frustration. Then my new colours magically appeared on the French pages before I went to bed last night. English pages were fine when I got up this morning. Bloody caching!
Authoring information on the posts - This was so frustrating. The author and date stamp on posts was just not displaying! As a newbie to Drupal, I was sure I was missing a setting somewhere to toggle this on (although I would've thought THAT should be a default). Searching the Drupal.org website found me the answer - the Chameleon theme (which is the display theme we're using) has a bug in the code from being ported to Drupal 5.1! So, that meant I had to go in and alter some more php code directly - I know NOTHING about PHP - so I'm grateful for the very explicit instructions in the post Drupal 5 not showing author/date in chameleon theme.
I must remember to do the modification for comments as well before I turn them on.