The people that coded the examples originally for the style sheet I was trying to emulate sure know how to make money from others selling their books and over-priced lessons, all the while pretending to teach hapless people who want to learn the CSS art that they are giving you the ONLY outline or correct examples of how to do something!!!
SO.., in order to really catch on to what is going on in CSS one has to be willing to throw the conventional wisdoms and "gurus of CSS" out the #@^% window(s)... and get on with mucking up the script until you get it right and to your own satisfaction! That is truly the only way to 'enlightenment',.. The examples and styles of doing can take more than one form. And let me just say this to all those hoo-doo gurus out there that obfuscate and double-talk their way into WOW-ING the masses with their four and five hundred page books that are obsolete almost by the time they are published: YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED!!! We are on to you!
This is the way to get into CSS 'Nirvana'...