I considered using smarty, but these blogs are to be installed into pages of sites on a server using my self-editing system.. It's easier to simply get the blog data..
First I want to say thanks for this great app.. I am using a shared deployment with the embeded option to pass the data through my own handrolled template system.. I looked at a lot of other programs that couldn't quite do everything I needed before I found s9y - great job!!