Here is a quick overview of what I am trying accomplish.
I want the column on the left to be static and appear on each page.
The main page/home page will eventually be filled with sections that contain news, videos and articles
The other pages in the site have yet to be defined.
do one of two things.
go into the module manager and...
1.) unpublish the rt_scroller and article manager modules or
2.) set them to only be published on the front/home page.
doing that will see your mainbody move to the top of the page.
to ensure the modules in the right column, just go into the module manager and set all the modules sitting in the module position to display on all pages.
if all that makes no sense to you, read the joomla administrator manual available at joomla.org.
also, to bring your site back onto the screen, look for the following on line 173 of template_css.css and play with the margin-left property:
div.wrapper {
height:auto; margin-left:0%;
padding-bottom:1px;
width:1075px;
}