Here Is another thought, I specifically am trying to match my gallery to my website and I would like to keep my headers and sidebar with my advertisers form the website, could I create a top and side table and then insert the them template file into it and then save it again as the template? Would this actually work?
This doesn't sound like "frames" to me, and I'm guessing that you haven't tried it yet. :-\\
-omni
What you are describing are not frames. For help with frames <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html>. If you want to keep coppermine, but have your header on top and have your side ad bars WITHOUT modifying coppermine, ie. leaving it alone, you will want to refer to the link provided.
Take a look at my Discussion Board as an example, I want the board part to be the Coppermine Gallery, could I have meant tables?
http://p201.ezboard.com/bteambajamarine