Right! All tags are regularized across journals, and I have further tweaked my wp crossposter to only crosspost things after a certain date, which eliminates the repeated entries I was dreading the idea of having to delete by hand.

On to the userpics! If I'm understanding how the back end works, entries from different journals that have the same userpic keyword in that field should draw the same userpic here. Never thought I'd be grateful for LJ's tendency to use metadata names instead of unique id numbers.

Also, for anyone who wishes to make use of this theme/skin I've made for Core 2 Testing, the layer is here. All you need to do is copy it, go to the advanced customization/developer area > Your Layers, make a theme layer based on Core 2 Testing, and paste that text in.

...well, that and hope that bloody damn HostMonster can keep my freaking sites running, because that's where the style sheet is hosted.

ETA: And not mind your tags being in a list.