alchymyth on "Sidebar Displays in Footer"

you seem to be closing the div .row too early (before the sidebar) and not having a .span3 in the sidebar div;

from the html output in the browser - change this section's related code in your templates:

</div> <!-- /.span9 articles -->
</div> <!-- /blog-->

		<div id="primary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">

to:

</div> <!-- /.span9 articles -->

		<div id="primary" class="widget-area span3" role="complementary">

(not widely tested)

the problem seems to be with the html structure of your edits - not really WordPress related.