I noted the wysiwyg module and the old tinymce module did not display on the 2008 versions of darsch theme.

I read the wysiwyg module faq api, http://drupal.org/node/417166
and saw this:

"Q: I got it working for Garland, however, when I switch to my custom theme it says "Drupal is not defined" ?
A: Please ensure that $scripts is output before $closure in page.tpl.php of your theme. Also make sure your page.tpl.php in your theme contains print $closure somewhere at the bottom. Without this theme area the module will not work.

Sure enough while page.tpl.php had $closure near bottom, it did not have $scripts at all.

I added this
print $scripts
After the title and styles embeds... thus:

print $head_title
print $styles
print $scripts

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and now the tinymce through wysiwyg module shows up.