I found this great page on how to make a footer stick to the bottom of the page.
http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer...ottom-of-page/
But when I add the trick that flowersgone gave me to the page it no longer works.
I think it's time to do what I did with my tube and pay PonyGirl to write the code instead of wasting hours of my time trying to figure this out.