Aha! I never thought to check the spelling. I'm so glad it's only a typo and not some huge mangey problem!

It works perfectly now, thank you so much for your help. I'd like to give back to s9y by desigining some templates in my spare time, so keep an eye out!

Yes, I'm using Serendipity 0.8 and PHP 4.3.9, according to the admin footer.

I personally did not modify any core files, and i don't think it's likely that the former programmer did, but he could have.

When I look inside genpage.inc.php, this is what I see:

(snip)
include_once('serendipity ...

Hi Garvin,

I copied and pasted what you typed into the config.inc.php file, so no typos, and after I read your last post, I got some help from a programmer friend, who gave me the top two lines:

<?php
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

if (is_numeric($serendipity ...

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the config.inc.php file, because when it is present in /templates/litique, nothing generates. It's just a blank page. As soon as I rename the file, everything comes back, but there aren't any category descriptions, of ...