*makes rude gesture*
Grrr! I can't get the archives back the way they were. It's either the drop-down box OR the long damn list. They don't want me to have my nice section with seven or eight post titles, then the friggin' archive drop-down box.
At least I got rid of all those goddamned dots. Yes, I still wound up rummaging around in the HTML after all, since they don't have diddly-squat for interesting choices in the Blogger templates no matter what you do to them. Rearrange dull components and ya just get dull components in a different order.
So it looks almost exactly like I had it six months ago but done with a lot less enthusiasm.
Go team.