Thanks!  that is helpful.  Can you let me know where i can find those blocks that you show on the Element_home_page.png .   for example "Shoutbox", "New Discussions", "All Feeds", etc..

Under Pages -> Protean, does the Protean Element mix include any sample pages?

Basically i would like to make my home page look just like the Element home page demo.

thanks again for all your help!