I DO know shit, butunfortatly, its a different kind of shit.
Baddog, I feel for yah. One of the reasons I stopped bothering with sites was because it all got a bit too complicated. WP was OK but these days everything seems to run of a script of some kind and and like you say, even WP has got complicated.
It used to be about just using the software, but now you need to be able to alter it as well...
Good luck though