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Okay, me not making a custom.css was causing the problem.
I have now moved my Backlight site away from my testing sub-domain and it's now live in a sub-folder of my site and works great.
(yes, I also did change the urls in Backlight to reflect the changes). And to note: I do have my own landing page and Backlight lives in a sub-folder causing difficulties linking to a "Page". I'm now linking to urls in my "Menu Sets" and everything's fine.

I found out what the issue was. When I moved Backlight and Pages, the problem occurred again of just showing my extra pages as plain black text on white background, and my logo not centered, my other design colors were gone, and menu sets were gone. And after more reading on this forum (the one you posted, Rod ..thanks.), I created a custom.css file and uploaded to my server, and pointed to it from Backlight under the Advanced Customization section where you're able to choose a custom.css.

The issue was that I had created more "Pages" and the .css file they needed to reference, I had not created.
So, I manually created a custom .css, uploaded it by ftp to my server, then logged into Backlight, choose my .css
..and it works great!!! ...I don't know if this is the preferred method, but it worked for me.

Okay, so your naming the .htaccess file to be htaccess through Publisher solved the problem. I was just trying to follow the release documentation and didn't know that. -That's really cool, you might want to make a note of it so others know. And feel free to edit my post or include any info in your further documentation on future releases. Thanks so much, Ben.
-Done! Awesome!

Thanks, Ben. I appreciate your work and specifically your helpful response to this issue.
And thank you, Rod.

Problem solved, and here's a quick tip: Rod, you kept referring to the .htaccess file included in the TTG update 101. Well, I discovered the .htaccess file was hidden from me on my computer and I never saw it until I made hidden files visible on my computer. Hidden files on my computer and on my server is a two-step job but I had hidden files I couldn't see on my computer.

If others are on a Mac and you don't see this .htaccess file directly included in the TTG Backlight 101 update package, open Terminal on your Mac and paste this code:
               defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE;killall Finder

Once you reveal these hidden files on your computer, you should now see inside the Backlight-Pages-101 folder when you downloaded the update and that .htaccess file will be visible:
     .DS_Store
     .htaccess
     /backlight
     /galleries
     index.php
     readme.txt
     TTG-Publisher.lrplugin

That's when I saw the .htaccess file and was able to update the one on my server like you suggested, Rod. This will be helpful to other Mac users, I'm sure.

You can really screw up your Mac if you mess with these hidden files all the time. So, if you want to go back to the default of hiding these hidden files, go back into Terminal and type:
     defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE;killall Finder
and click Enter and you'll go back to hiding those hidden files forever, unless you change it again in Terminal to always show hidden files.

There are applications that can help you do this, like TinkerTool. But I've never used any. You could try using Terminal on your Mac or use TinkerTool or some software like it. I'm no expert, but using Terminal worked for me to show this .htaccess file on my Mac.

Understood, this .htaccess file goes in my sub-domanin.
But the file I found in the downloaded TTG update folder in (->admin -> skeleton -> htaccess)
download is called   htaccess    (and not .htaccess)  Uploading this "htaccess" file, my old     .htaccess    remains on the root folder
of my sub-domain but   htaccess   does not replace it. ...so now; in my sub-domain I have all the needed files, but also now have                           
   .htaccess    (and also have)    htaccess    Note: I have only installed Backlight into this sub-domain, ...for now.

Thanks for the answer, Rod! That's exactly what I wanted to know.

I must have the abilities of CE4 (CRG and I use Stage to show html5 video). So, it looks like I should wait to move over to Backlight. I'll be among the rest of happy customers curiously waiting for those features to make their way into Backlight development.

I had read that but I didn't know what settings to use.
With HostGater, using CRG I changed from "smtp" to "mail"
and changed "set album permissions" to yes.

Now, email works! Thank you, Rod!
..gary

Sounds good. Thanks for putting me on the right track.

Thank you so much, Ben. That was a fast reply!
I had tried looking just about everywhere ...except for "Localizations" under TTG be admin.

That's exactly what I needed. I'll make my changes and post back here for others to read.
Thanks again, for your very helpful suggestion.

Thanks for the clarification. I've got many other new things with CE4 to spend time on and I'll figure something out getting a complicated contact form with capability for uploads and post what I did. I like much of the new things in CE4, good work!