Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears to be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get Word to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new normal.dot of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course it left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that? What is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you go to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?