For 2-column format in 4.1 you should edit your skin1/customer/home.tpl
copy all the lines between
Code:
<td class="VertMenuRightColumn">
and
and paste them after the line
Code:
{include file="help.tpl" }
and then wrap them with comment symbols like this:
Code:
{*<td class="VertMenuRightColumn">
....
</td>*}