Easiest blogware to edit templates...

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I'm looking for your opinions on which blog proggie makes it the easiest to bash the living shit out of the template system. I want to start a couple small blogs on my sites, but I want the blog to look as much like the mother site as possible. Whomever came up with WordPress' template scheme should be kicked in the balls. Great program, less than simple to hack after a few beers. I screwed with it for awhile, but could never get it to look quite the way I wanted and what I wanted was pretty fucking simple. Really, what I'd love is to be able to just php include some of the blog's junk onto a page on my site. Is that so much to ask?

Thanks in advance for any help you may offer.