Update: I confirmed that I can indeed use the sideboxes from this mod if I run the blog as a seperate entity..  Wasn’t a fluke at all.. Here’s how (in BRIEF)

1. Install WordPress (v2.7.x) in it’s OWN directory — you can use the same database where you have your Zen tables installed; just make sure that you use a table pre-fix to distinguish your WordPress tables from your Zen Cart tables
2. Follow all of the install instructions for this mod with the exception of “Step 2″ in the WOZ instructions. — you may skip this step in it’s entirety.. since you won’t be embedding the blog, this step will cause problems later on. If you want, you can also choose to skip using Kiddo’s change for v2.7.x since you won’t be embedding the blogAlso since you will be running the blog as a seperate entity, you do not HAVE to use the default Word Press template that comes with WOZ. Therefore, you will not need the modified default template files included in this mod. So you can also skip the 2nd step of Step 3 in the WOZ instructions
3. Go to “includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes”. Open all of the WOZ sidebox files and look for this line $content .= ‘<ul>’.$out.’</ul>’; Just above this line add this: $content .= ‘<div id=”‘ . str_replace(‘_’, ‘-’, $box_id . ‘Content’) . ‘” class=”sideBoxContent”>’;This will format the WOZ sideboxes to look like your store’s other sideboxes
4. Go to includes/modules/sideboxes. Modify the “wp_sidebar.php” sidebox as follows: Comment out this line “$title_link = ‘wordpress’;” (should be line 27, this is the code that creates the sidebox header link to the main blog page) — again since you are not embedding the blog you won’t need this link.
5. Activate which ever WOZ sideboxes you want to use.

You’ll of course need to skin your blog to match your ZenCart template. Some other suggestions for tying your WordPress blog to ZenCart include: (these are only a FEW suggestions, with a little imagination you can do a lot more)

• Using the WordPress “Links” widget and create links back to specific products or product categories
• Add links to your “Contact Us” forms, policies, & other Zen content.
• Create a menu identical to your EZ Pages menu in the header or footer of your Blog

Hope someone else finds any of my ramblings helpful.. Here’s a link to a real working version of this in case anyone wants to see an example of this in action.. http://www.lanikshair.com