[PeggiF]

Thanks gb2world! That did work to remove the white box!
I added in the body tag to home.tpl. I'm confused by the errors mentioned in w3c validator as far as the "end tag omitted" (it's there), "Opening and ending tag mismatch: link line 5" and head ( I have both), "Opening and ending tag mismatch: head line 4 and html" ( I have both), "Premature end of data in tag html line 3" (it's the last thing on the page).