This will be the start of a series of fixes that I find useful in implementing Magento projects, rather than digging through the forums (which contains a lot of fixes old and new for various versions of Magento, i will also specify on the version in which the fix worked for me).

Edit page: page.xml inside: app\design\frontend\default\blue\layout

<block type=”page/html” name=”root” output=”toHtml” template=”page/3columns.phtml”>

to

<block type=”page/html” name=”root” output=”toHtml” template=”page/2columns-right.phtml”>

View discussion on this note: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/16838/

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