Theme-styled Colophon, About, and Archives?

I’m trying to round out the meta info on my site. Colophon and About should be perfectly possible via the 1.3a4’s “Pages” interface so that’s not the main one. Mainly I want to have a main “Archives” page that contains various lists of archives. I can’t use the static page interface because then the PHP code for creating those lists don’t execute and are instead just inline with the HTML of the page. I can put a page at my blog root, but hooking in to the theme-specific styling and such appears impossible. I could put it in my theme directory and have .htaccess redirect directly to the theme directory, but that seems a bit hackish. Any suggestions?
Yes, I’ve searched, but searches for “archives” tends to bring back a lot of results.
Thanks.