Help request: insert break between posts per date (group)

Hello, I’ve done a fair amount of searching to no avail. I need help.

My query is that for each group of posts that are displayed via $the_date I want to install a break (be it text or a graphic or code or whatever) between each post and perhaps a different break between each date group. To understand my query visually, here’s how I want it to look:

———– SITE BANNER ———–

———– START POSTS ———–

Day1 *bug* Date1
Post 1.1
(break)
Post 2.1
(break)
Post 3.1
(different break)

Day2 *bug* Date2
Post 2.1
(break)
Post 2.2
(different break)

Day3 *bug* Date3
Post 3.1
(break)
Post 3.2
(different break)

Last Day *bug* Last Date
Post L.1
(break)
Post L.2

———– FINISH POSTS ———–

———– SITE FOOTER ———–

http://tinyurl.com/dat9b is the webdev site showing the above so far.

I can get the (different break) to work before or after each date-grouped set of posts (but not between) which I’d accept reluctantly. But I will not accept a break occurring before or after every post. IOW, no, I do not want to insert a break before each post/date or after each post/date — between, baby, between! — I want a break between each post but not the same break between the post of one day and the post of a previous day.

If I figured out one (break) or the other (different break), then I’d probably get the other or one. 🙂

One thing I was able to successfully accomplish was hacking functions.php and template-functions-general.php to insert a logo bug between the output of $the_date (see above). Accomplishing that hack has me thinking I should be able to focus on the “else” of the “if else” within “function the_date…” within template-functions-general.php. However, I don’t know squat about PHP. I was only able to get so far with inserting the bug between the_date’s output through trial and error (I added newday2 to functions.php and the_date2 to t-f-g.php).

Any ideas? Any, please.

Thanks for any help/thoughts!
– webdawg

P.S. I ran across several posts (see below), some discussing Moose Candy . Can Moose Candy (or some other hack I’ve not discovered) be hacked to insert a break between EACH post?

Other close but no cigar “between post” topics”
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/16773
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/30025

Somewhat helpful Moose Candy topics:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic.php?id=29521
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic.php?id=28587