I went through your tutorial on skinning and it worked quite well. I did a bit of a mashup of the one you used but was getting kinda frustrated at one point. I went back through the tutorial and found that the same problem I have exists on your tutorial and with the example that I downloaded.
How the heck do I get rid of that little white vertical bar in the top right corner of my header? It is there plain as day in the tutorial. The only way I could get rid of it was by deleting the text for my VA name.