WordPress MU

I'm building an MU site and seem to have everything working fine except one thing...

The Flexibility Flexsqueeze premium theme I am using works great for the main blog. However, changes made to the user theme options don't stick.

The main differences are a different header image and different colors for sidebar/header items throughout.

I've copied the theme, renamed the folder, renamed the style.css and style.php files (the theme names inside those files), activated in Site Admin, and activated in the user backend.

WordPress seems confused by the "almost" duplicate themes. The only different between the two is the theme name in the two files mentioned, and a different header image, which is defined in the options.

How can I make it clear to WPMU that the two themes are two separate beasts?

Thanks for any help....

gary

After a clue from the theme developer, I got this to work.

Even when installing a duplicate of the theme in another location, and tweaking the options in the sub-blog, the theme will write to the specified directory if it is hard-coded into functions.php by the theme developer. For folks wanting to do a similar install, here's what I did:

This applies to the FlexSqueeze theme.

1. Change the name of the theme in style.php and style.css
2. Change the name of the theme folder to "flexsqueeze-subblogname"
3. Upload both themes (original flexsqueeze and duplicated flexsqueeze to the themes directory
4. In WPMU, in Site Admin, deactivate the theme (this keeps it from being viewed by all sub-blogs and the main blog).
5. In WPMU, in Site Admin, activate the theme in the Appearance/Themes panel. This makes it available only to the main blog.
6. In WPMU, in the subblog admin, click the link at the top of the page for Site Admin Activation. Oddly enough, this activates that them so the subblog admin panel can see it. You should now be able to see the screenshot of the theme.
7. In WPMU, in the subblog admin, activate the theme in Appeance/Themes panel.

Now you will have the original theme in the main blog, and the duplicated/altered them in the subblog.

To get to this point, I had to go into the database using myPHPAdmin and clean out all references to the subblog theme, and replace them with the name of the original theme. This had the effect of "resetting" WPMU so it didn't think I had two of the same, unchanged, themes uploaded. Not recommended for the faint-of-heart.

I'm sure there is an easier way to do this, perhaps with "child" themes, but this was faster than learning all that.

gary