Enhance My Wordpress

1) I am going back and forth between the icandy them and the magazine theme. I like the crispness of the magazine them but I want one column in the middle. I have the first post as a sticky. I want it to stay up there but not as a post. Basically directions on what to do on the site. 2) I want the blue background that is there but I want the posts to have a white background and to have a border around each post (to separate them). 3) I want the users to be able to submit their own stories (after I have approved them) but I want their names to show up - once I edit the story not listed as admin. 4) I want to be able to post a poll on the bottom of each poll. With attachments a word document of what I want the poll button to look like). For now the poll is in poll daddy but I don't care if we use that or not. I would like to be able to post the poll and reuse the poll over for each poll without having to create a new poll .. You can suggest for a poll system .. Some simple changes, like: I want to also remove the categories and archives on the right side. I like the idea of leaving the comments there so people can have a conversation if they want. I like the latest posts or something like that on the side - so people can see the titles of the stories without scrolling down. I envision a hot or not ([login to view URL]) type site but with posts. I am open to suggestions also.