Known Theme Issue With garland (center-weighted)

I have run into some theme issues with garland - the default theme in drupal 5.x. You'll notice that this theme has a $footer_message and a $closure defined. This is confusing. Drupal's hook_footer uses $closure as the "footer". Things looked pretty ugly having $closure outside the main block (for a center-weighted site).

Instead I moved the print $closure statement right above/below the print $footer_message statement in page.tpl.php.

This let me style footermap and still have it render using the main width (for example center-weighted, but text-align right).

Ugh. Themes.