Thank you for your response but I had to abandon this template, it has too many problems with IE and stock joomla extensions not to mention the money I spent which I really couldn't afford but, I had to get this site up and so I downloaded the stock 1.5 version on joomla and added all the extensions and now everything is working perfectly. Thank you for your help, I really do appreciate your time. I guess in the future I have to be more careful of rushing into buying something that just didn't work for me,
Thanks anyway, and to everyone here, I wish you all a Merry Christmas!!