Ad regions in content area... inside page?

I've successfully added regions that display blocks above the content area. Right now I even have three side by side in addition to sidebar_right and sidebar_left.
Problem: they push all the other regions/blocks down... and on the page I have the blocks configured to show, they show above the page title.

So... after doing a good bit if fiddling around with page.tpl.php, I haven't been able to figure out how to get these new regions to appear in the page... as though they were content... and still allow the right sidebar to display beside them.

Any hints?

Here's what I have around line 136, in case it helps to see ("blogroll_left" is one of my new regions. Figured I'd try to get just one in the right place first... but the code below didn't get it there... it kind of showed up roughly where sidebar_right belongs.)

     <!--blogroll_left-->    	
        <?php if ($blogroll_left) { ?>
          <div class="blogroll_left">

           <?php print $blogroll_left ?>
           </div><!-- end blogroll left -->
		   <?php } ?>
		   
     <!-- left -->
        <?php if ($sidebar_left) { ?>
          <div class="lsidebar">

          
            <?php print $sidebar_left ?>
            
          </div><!-- end left -->
        <?php } ?>

		        			
   	<!-- right -->
        <?php if ($sidebar_right) { ?>
          <div class="rsidebar">
 
            <?php print $sidebar_right ?>
         
          </div><!-- end right -->
        <?php } ?>