'a section'? Could you be more specific? A seperate page? Or embedded into your blog?

embedded..

Like on mine the right side has the calendar, etc listed down the side, so I guess that is what I meant by section...

ok so I found this _bloglist.php
and it says its not meant to be called directly,
So I guess I need to figure out how to get that code included in _main.php

I don't think you will want the bloglist.
because that is nothing more or less than links to all your blogs.

You could use the linkblog (you call it this way :

<?php require( dirname(__FILE__).'/_linkblog.php' );  ?>

or you could look into the multiblogs.php
that is a page where tree blogs are shown on the front page.
Look into the code to see how it is done.

Yeah I jumped the gun posting that and its not what I want..

I guess I'm looking for a way to add links to my favorite blogs and other sites on the side...

tazdog,
than you want the linkblog
that's clear.