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Thanks, Threadi,
But I think I’m going to try Albert’s solution. (See below.)

Thanks, Albert,
I found the two files and downloaded them and will work on duplicates, while I keep the originals just in case.
I had a few of questions.
The line 110 change says: “(Change every { to [ and every } to ].)” But the line 111 change doesn’t say that. So, I do not make that change to that second line?
Your images/header-img.php file correction seems to deal with the missing top matter of the opening page. I didn’t ask about that but if that’s what this correction is fixing, thank you. The odd thing about that missing header is that I made another website for the client exactly the same way and I never lost the header on that one! (See: https://sherpspace.com)
I noticed you didn’t address my second question, about how this old theme is balking at changing my administration email address. Did you have any thoughts about that? Or will this PHP correction miraculously solve that problem, also?

Can you post that screen capture again? I want to show it to my ISP’s techies, to help me find it. (Like I say, a little rusty.)

Here’s an extra credit question: How did this happen? The banner used to work and I haven’t done anything to the code and would be the only one who would.

Thanks again, Corrina, but I cannot find this:

#header {
    background: url('https://freddiegershon.com/freddiesblog/wp-content/themes/default/images/header-img.php?upper=000000&lower=00FFFF') no-repeat bottom center;

}

I did find this:
header-img.php

Should I just remove it?

Hi, Kim,

Hooray! You did it! Check it out! https://freddiegershon.com/freddiesblog/

But the BG is a little wider than the area below it. I tried tweaking the headerimg dimensions but nothing happened. Any suggestions?

#headerimg {
/*margin: 7px 9px 0;*/
margin: 6px 8px 0;
height: 192px;
/*width: 740px;*/
width: 736px;
}

I also tried it with the top code here turned on and off, to no effect.

#header {
background: #73a0c5 url(‘images/kubrickheader.jpg’) no-repeat bottom center;
}

#header { background: url(‘/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpg’) no-repeat bottom center; }

Thanks again!

Thanks for that tip, but I don’t know what form it should take.

Is there a repository of WordPress-approved CSS snippets to which I might refer? I’ve tried searching and nothing jumps out; I believe CSS coding takes somewhat different forms when used in WordPress.

Hmmmm. All that comes up is my short list of l.c. authors, not my display name as administrator. However, I did create another persona for my client under a slightly different name and different email and gave him the role there of Contributor (i.e., in edition to his previous role as an Author.) Now when I do your trick, he comes up in the Author dropdown as both personas. So if I change authorship to him as “Contributor” does that mean he won’t get any more emails asking him to pass judgement on comments that come in for that post? (The book I have on WordPress indicates that is the case for Contributors but doesn’t spell it out.)

This is a folo to my immediate previous.
I found a ref to the two cookies above called:
comment_author_email_eae etc.
comment_author_eae, etc.
Here it is:
When visitors comment on your blog, they too get cookies stored on their computer. This is purely a convenience, so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters:

* comment_author
* comment_author_email
* comment_author_url

When I deleted the two I had in FF for this site, my problem cleared up in FF as it had in Safari.
Because I was posting these comments for the commenters, their info was setting as cookies to my machine. That’s why I was getting their info in the “Leave a Reply” boxes.

Thanks again, esmi!