Check it out! In both firefox and safari the log in box is the correct size! It is no longer attacking the content. It turned out to be a 2 minute CSS fix, about 1000 times easier than the php module fix that I had tried previously, that ended up only working for firefox.

here is the link of my success
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1777070/fix-size-of-login-box-in-drup...

Removed the "Blog" heading from the blogs page by making a new view.
 
I also have now made it so that people viewing the site without being logged in cannot view the solutions page, however I think individual solutions still work. I'm not sure how to make this as friendly as possible, since I want to protect user's idea's (as much as that is possible, through the terms of use), however I know that people don't being forced to log into sites all the time. OpenID isn't quite popular enough to solve this problem right now.
 

I've fixed the log in box size issue for firefox, but now it's out of control in safari, jutting way into the page (see attachment). The navigation now stay's "active" (blue) when on the page that was clicked, the contact form looks correct and works, and the terms of use look correct on both the registration page and the /termsofuse page.
 
 
I'm still trying to:
 
Remove "Blogs" and "Jon's Blog" from the blogs section, but I think I'll be able to sort that out with the view's module, as a replacement to the default blogs view.
 

Finally got back to this. It's still got a long way to go, but it's at least looking a bit better. I keep clicking on links that take me to un-styled elements, which means I just need to go through and finish that up.
  
Once that's done I can start adding the real features of the site - hopefully the drupal community has the plug-ins that I need in order for this to work. I really don't want to have to try to learn php.