While adding a few a few of the folks I met at TCEP to my friends list, I've also gotten around to customizing my LJ page a bit, adding a few links, etc

I found that the "Component" look-and-feel, with minor tweaks, gives the layout I want. The problem is that pages with this layout tend to freeze up in IE before the scroll bar, links, etc actually deign to function. This doesn't seem to be an issue in Firefox, and is presumably related to the properties of IE (specifically, its property of being a piece of crap).