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Looks like I got it working… As I suspected, it was my idiocy… I didn’t realize that it was taboo to have anything commented out inside the “<style> … </style>” block… I did have a comment line in there, and apparently the entire block was being ignored.
Now to play with the different styles available, and modify the layout/etc…
Thanks to all for the suggestions.

Yeah, it’s activated… And no question is too silly as far as I’m concerned… I’m not really sure if I should’ve posted this in the troubleshooting forum rather than the plugin forum… I do have a tendency to overlook things that should be obvious…
I keep coming back to the idea that I must’ve hosed up my /journal/index.php file while I was re-arranging the placement of the things in the #menu section… That seems like the obvious place I could’ve screwed something up… Although after having restored the index.php and other files, clearing cache, deleting cookies, etc, with no positive results, I’mleft with the feeling that I must’ve done something really boneheaded in order to still be non-functional….
Oh well, at least it was a fresh install… I’ll play with it for a day or so, then I’ll delete it all and try a fresh re-install if I don’t get any better ideas…. Nothing to lose, anyhow, and plenty to gain in the way of a learning experience (assuming I can figure out where I screwed up in the first place)… We all tend to learn more from our mistakes than from our success…
Even so, if anyone is able to spot my (probably obvious) errors before I go ‘tabula rasa’, please feel free to make suggestions, criticism, or whatever…. Anything short of direct flames might be helpful…
Thanks again, in advance

Yes, I made a few changes to the file:
/journal/index.php
purely for the purposes of altering the layout slightly (mainly the order of the items on the right-hand side, under the “menu” section), and I made a few changes to the default stylesheet (before I installed – or even knew about – the style-switcher), to change the default colors and such) – Other than that, it’s a straight install…
I did (a couple of times) back up my current files, replace the changed files with those from the distro, and retry the changes… If I understand corrctly, replacing these files (and then following the instructions in the wp-style-switcher README) should create a relatively foolproof test-install:
/journal/index.php
/journal/wp-layout.css
/journal/wp-content/plugins/wp-style-switcher.php
No joy. I’m convinced that this must be a really stupid oversight on my part… Gotta be something obvious that I’ve overlooked… I have a natural talent for missing the simplest things.
Again, I’m tremendously thankful for any and all advice.

Ah, yeah… Stupid me… Although, I should point out something I didn’t notice until just now.
The URL for my test/play-around/try-to-learn installation is:
https://s94939858.onlinehome.us/journal/
Currently, the changes to the ‘index.php’ file have been restored to static (slightly modified) .css file, but the links to the alternate styles are still shown toward the bottom of the page on the right.
The thing I recently noticed (which might or might not be worth pointing out), is that the example on Alex’s ‘golf’ page seems to view well under firefox, but not under MSIE. Probably a huge oversight on my part, but my MSIE cookies were disabled. Still, even after enabling them, it seems to make no difference on my site, although it works on Alex’s ‘golf’ site just fine.
Thanks again to anyone who can straighten me out…. I’m sure it’s probably something stupid on my part….