I'm working on a drupal theme for the current site and thought I'd note some of the things I've been doing for future reference. First of all I've already solved this problem before but just had to look it up. The front page cuts the posts short if you don't tell it otherwise, so to fix this I placed the following tag at the end of the page so it would display in full:

<!--break-->

Secondly I'm having trouble with the home link getting highlighted as the active link, so I had to use the following method. I first created a home link using <front> as the link and then I hacked the core using this link under comment #5

So after the day is done I have a fairly workable drupal theme that isn't %100 but it is very close and gets the point across... I actually solved my problem with tinyMCE and headings by installing the heading plugin and adding a little bit of code to /modules/tinymce/plugin_reg.php I now have shiny new buttons for adding headers!

$plugins['heading'] = array();
$plugins['heading']['theme_advanced_buttons3'] = array('h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'separator');