Installed the TwentyTen theme and that has resolved the original sizing issue.
fine –
you need to decide which theme to use
– Twenty Eleven with the theme options to select a ‘dark’ color scheme;
– or Twenty Ten with a width of 960px.
in either case, create a child theme to make tehedits in.
if you want a ‘dark’ Twenty Ten, you need to edit style.css of its child theme quite intensively;
if you want a narrower (possibly fixed width ?) Twenty Eleven, you also need to edit style.css of its child theme.
btw:
which is unedited from another site with that theme.
before copying template files from another site, make absolutely sure that the sites are using the same theme.