I'm really in a bind. What i am trying to do is retrieve user information of the blog owner via the theme. Originally I had thought i could get the user_id by pulling it from user_meta like so:
$current_user_id = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT user_id FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE (meta_key = 'source_domain' AND meta_value = '$domain')" );
$user = get_userdata( $current_user_id );
This was working fine at first... but i recently realized that this would not work for multiple blogs because source_domain only stores the primary blog. I don't get why this is so hard. This HAS to be outside of a loop too. The thing about using the loop is you pull the current "authors" information and not the actual blog owners, plus you can't use it before the loop is initialized. The other option i was thinking about was using blog meta (get_blog_option), but that info is stored for each blog (which would be kind of silly when you're saving data for a user account). I guess i would be forced to do it that way, but it seems like this is lacking functionality for wordpress.
I've searched and searched thru core functions and stared at the database for TOO many hours trying to find a correlation between the user and the blog so that you can pull the user_id. From the user_id.. you can obviously get everything you need. A Guru like Andrea, Luna, DrMike, or Andrew must know something about this! Some of you know i contribute here and there on these forums, so I greatly appreciate your help with this.