Is there a non programmatic way to override the NODE TITLE text??

Thank you for the pointer to the node theming article.

I guess the basic logic below:
( to breakout details for each page and node type)

could be accomplished with both the page and node types making

page*.tpl.php and node*.tpl.php files for each node type.

... but it is a very programmatic hack - while this is supposed to be CMS world - designed reduce/eliminate all that.

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if ($is_front) {/* check if it's the front page */
    include 'page-front.tpl.php'; /*load a custom front-page.tpl.php */
    return; }
if ($node->type == 'book') {/* check if it's a book page */
    include 'page-book.tpl.php'; /*load a custom book-page.tpl.php */
    return; }
if ($node->type == 'blog') {/* check if it's a blog node */
    include 'page-blog.tpl.php'; /*load a custom blog-page.tpl.php */
    return; }
if ($node->type == 'image') {/* check if it's an image node */
    include 'page-image.tpl.php'; /*load a custom image-page.tpl.php */
    return; }
if ($node->type == 'forum') {/* check if it's a forum node */
    include 'page-forum.tpl.php'; /*load a custom forum-page.tpl.php */
    return; }
include 'page-default.tpl.php'; /*if none of the above applies, load the page-default.tpl.php */
    return; }

First of all you did not pay attention to my PRIMARY question.

My PRIMARY question was how to dynamically modify the NODE TITLE text of any node nonprogrammatically - at will somehow.

I want to be able to COMPLETELY replace the ENTIRE title text of any node dynamically, not just end up with another string with the HARDCODED 'blog' appended to it.

Your super hack non solution would NOT be provide a solution to the question I asked about.

Furthermore, your hack/non-solution asks me to transform my ENGLISH into a PSUEDO language that would not match the LANGUAGE selector name in the localization interface, confusing anyone else working with me to produce content.

blog.module - excerpt WITH HARDCODED HACK CODE

/* line 127 */
if ($account->uid) {
drupal_set_title($title = t("%name's blog", array('%name' => $account->name)));
[...]

/* drupal with a better design would have all blogs/books/forums (and the parent psuedo containers') titles in the admin UI with a title field stored in the database */

if ($node->uid)
{
drupal_set_title($title = $node->title);
}

a) Unless you can PAY ATTENTION and answer my ACTUAL - PRIMARY question,
(1) Take your HACK non-solutions elsewhere;
b) especially when you stated 'I've never done this';
c) your solution doesn't work because exporting the en-US little output (see actual result below) and it does address my original PRIMARY requirements;
e) Don't LECTURE me about paying attention when you have not; and
f) Chill out dude..

p.s. - even if your personal site does look nice -
- TRANSLATE IT INTO AN ENGLISH VERSION.
- http://pctips.ustilago.org/
- and put a translate button on your site for the english version.
- (example of site with german/english versions www.creamware.com )

p.p.s - blog.module has MANY more HARDCODED logic problems in it that should instead be modifiable through the drupal admin user interface. Here is yet another example:

There isn't any way to place the 'Post new blog entry' option BELOW the blog entries because it is HARDCODED into the blog.module code as follows:

function blog_page_user($uid) {
global $user;

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

if ($account->uid) {
/* HARCODED "%name's blog" - string logic */
drupal_set_title($title = t("%name's blog", array('%name' => $account->name)));

/* HARCODED position of 'Post new blog entry' option before the blog nodes */
/* if I want it below I have to hack the DRUPAL CORE CODE !!!!!!! */

if (($account->uid == $user->uid) && user_access('edit own blog')) {
$output = '

';
}
else if ($account->uid == $user->uid) {
$output = '

';
}

if ($output) {
$output = '

'. $output .'

';
}
else {
$output = '';
}

$result = pager_query(db_rewrite_sql("SELECT n.nid, n.sticky, n.created FROM {node} n WHERE type = 'blog' AND n.uid = %d AND n.status = 1 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', NULL, variable_get('default_nodes_main', 10));
$output .= theme('xml_icon', url("blog/$account->uid/feed"));

drupal_add_link(array('rel' => 'alternate',
'type' => 'application/rss+xml',
'title' => t('RSS - %title', array('%title' => $title)),
'href' => url("blog/$account->uid/feed")));
print theme('page', $output);
}
else {
drupal_not_found();
}

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Below the COMPLETE contents of exporting the default en-US 'translation'

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# LANGUAGE translation of PROJECT
# Copyright (c) YEAR NAME
#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2006-01-31 04:17-0800\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM+ZZZZ\n"
"Last-Translator: NAME \n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"