Themes... how do I?

[floyd1]

What is needed to get a theme to work with Tiny Portal?

I have downloaded and installed about 10 of them from the site and they all (outside of Helios) lose all the TP blocks on the front page.

What am I doing... or not doing wrong?

[G6Cad]

You make sure the themes you download and install have the support for TP ( tp converted themes)
All of Blocs new themes ( from Nov 2007 ) have the option to turn on support for TP in the Admin/Configuration/Current theme)

All other themes must be converted to work with tp.

[floyd1]

How do you convert them?

[Smoky]

check this out: http://www.jr62.com/cripconvert.htm

Crip did that, and if you follow it, you can convert them too.. good luck!!