Collapsible Archive plugins and widgets

I want to use some kind of collapsible archive utility but can’t get any of them to work. I installed Bob Felty’s first and got a page that said “Are you sure you want to do this?” and nothing else! No way to say yes or no. So then I tried a widget. Only my theme is not widget compatible and when I added the two lines suggested my blog choked with a syntax error message beneath the header image. I don’t have a function.php file (at least none is listed in the theme editor page. I wanted to try another but it wasn’t compatible with anything after 2.7 or so.

So I am at a loss. Here is the start of my sidebar.php file in case that helps. http://vener-art.com/beadblog/ (I thank you in advance for any help or advice)
=========================begin included text===========================

<div id=”sidebar”>

• <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>

<!– Author information is disabled per default. Uncomment and fill in your details if you want to use it.

• <h2>Author</h2>
  <p>A little something about you, the author. Nothing lengthy, just an overview.</p>

–>
<!– indiego advert –>

<!– experimental editing –>

• <?php /* If this is a 404 page */ if (is_404()) { ?>
  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
  <p>You are currently browsing the archives for the <?php single_cat_title(”); ?> category.</p>

  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
  <p>You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for the day <?php the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’); ?>.</p>

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
  <p>You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for <?php the_time(‘F, Y’); ?>.</p>

  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
  <p>You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for the year <?php the_time(‘Y’); ?>.</p>

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
  <p>You have searched the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for ‘<?php echo wp_specialchars($s); ?>’. If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.</p>

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET[‘paged’]) && !empty($_GET[‘paged’])) { ?>
  <p>You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives.</p>

  <?php } ?>

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>’ ); ?>

• <h2>Archives</h2>

<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

• <h2>Categories</h2>

<?php
wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0’); ?>

<?php get_links_list(); ?>

• <h2>Meta</h2>

<?php wp_register(); ?>
• <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
• Valid <abbr title=”eXtensible HyperText Markup Language”>XHTML</abbr>
• <abbr title=”XHTML Friends Network”>XFN</abbr>
• WordPress

<?php wp_meta(); ?>

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Patricia