Assignment 7 Woes

Currently trying to fix my A7 to include the dynamic meta tags and title pages. I've already encountered a fundamental problem:

Left-side nav links seem to replicate themselves rather than replace the links listed in the theme. See here

The problems lies in my config_inc.php file:

// DECLARING ARRAY IN ADVANCE SHOULD BE UNNECESSARY - TRIP HAZARD!!$nav1 = array(); #nav1 is the current left nav - tilde separator below splits text of link from title attribute

//$nav1 = array(); #nav1 is the current left nav - tilde separator below splits text of link from title attribute

if(startSession() && isset($_SESSION['AdminID'])){$nav1[ADMIN_DASHBOARD] = "ADMIN~Go to Administrative Page";}#admin page added to link only if logged in
$nav1['index.php'] = "Home~A model for building largely static web pages";
$nav1['models/demo_contact.php'] = "Contact~A demo for building postback forms";
$nav1['models/demo_mysql.php'] = "mysql Classic~A demo for building mysql (classic) web applications";
$nav1['models/demo_mysqli.php'] = "mysqli Improved~A demo for building mysqli (improved) web applications";
$nav1['models/demo_shared.php'] = "MySQL Shared~A demo page for building mysqli shared connection based applications.";
$nav1['error_test.php'] = "Error Test~Click to see how errors are currently being handled";
$config->nav1 = $nav1; #add to global config object - now available in all header/footers

//echo makeLinks($config->nav1,'<li>','</li>');  #link arrays are created in config_inc.php file
echo makeLinks($config->nav1,'<li>','</li>'); #link arrays are created in config_inc.php file
# CONTENT CONFIGURATION AREA (theme, content areas & nav arrays for header/footer )-----------------------------------------

I'm not sure whether to write the makeLinks config written this way or the other. The latter just repeats the nav hyperlinks.

Also, I noticed that the index that went with the original Dark Ritual theme is being overwritten; is that supposed to happen? I don't have any of the lorem ipsum that I was expecting nor do I know how to make it come back up.

----------------------BREAK THROUGH ON A7-----------------------------------
Looks like I had to trace back where the sidebars resided (in this case, in the footer >.< not the header) and I had to paste the echo makeLinks statement in the footer_inc.php, not in config_inc.php file

Now would be nice to figure out how to have phpMinAdmin log in follow the theme that I currently have...