also, it's not a big deal b/c I'm not using any images, but for some reason, the images/buttons are called from the cgi-bin rather than the noncgi. I'm not sure if it's something I did wrong or not. I just disabled them all anyways so as not to deal with them (I didn't want them in the first place). But still I figured it was worth mentioning.
Also the other thing was that I had initially wanted to load the jirc applet using the "pure" class. However my site is hosted with Digital Princeton and my irc server is here in my home. I had loaded the jirc applet ready to be served via Apache, but I didn't anticipate that the hack would have the applet already as a part of it to be hosted locally.