Display blog in profile?

I figured it out, hallelujah! Let me see if I can trace all the steps...

In the blog.module, I created a new function, "profile_blog($uid)." It's almost identical to the "blog_page_user($uid)" function with one vital exception. print theme('page', $output, $title); has been changed to print theme('blog', $output, $title); That's because I don't want to run it through the page theme with the blocks and the header and footer, I want a stripped down theme that will just show the blog content.

/*The new function in the blog.module to generate blog data for the profile*/

profile_blog($uid) {
  $account = user_load(array((is_numeric($uid) ? 'uid' : 'name') => $uid, 'status' => 1));

  if ($account->uid) {
    $title = t("%name's blog", array('%name' => $account->name));
    $output = '';

    $result = pager_query('SELECT DISTINCT(n.nid), n.sticky, n.created FROM {node} n '. node_access_join_sql() ." WHERE type = 'blog' AND n.uid = %d AND n.status = 1 AND ". node_access_where_sql() .' ORDER BY n.sticky DESC, n.created DESC', variable_get('default_nodes_main', 10), 0, NULL, $account->uid);
    while ($node = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $output .= node_view(node_load(array('nid' => $node->nid)), 1);
    }
    $output .= theme('pager');
    $output .= theme('xml_icon', url("blog/feed/$account->uid"));
    print theme('blog', $output, $title);
  }
  else {
    drupal_not_found();
  }
}

Then I add the function "phptemplate_blog" to the phptemplate.engine, which only displays the content element of the template file and looks like this:

/*The new function in phptemplate.engine theme the stripped down blog data*/

function phptemplate_blog($content) {
  $vars = array(
    'content'             => '<!-- begin content -->' . $content . '<!-- end content -->',
  );
  return _phptemplate_callback('blog', $vars);
}

Then of course I had to create a blog.tpl.php file which very simply looks like this:

<?php print($content) ?>

So in my "user_profile.tpl.php" I call <?php profile_blog($user->uid) ?> and voila! Please, please contact me if this helps or if--more likely with my luck--it doesn't work for you.

Thanks again, Dublin, for your assistance in this matter. Drupal is amazing. I hope I can harness the power of this beast in the coming weeks. All the best,

Jonathan