Quote Originally Posted by DivaVocals View Post
They're not removed by design at all.. On the site I created and used this template with the sideboxes are off by design (because that's the layout my client wanted).. Of course I am using the older version of this template, and based on the posts, the "problem" with the sideboxes seems to be isolated to the latest version of this template.. If I recall correctly, one of the folks reporting this sidebox issue was able to work fine by installing the older version of this template. (I'll have to read back through the posts a little bit)

Thanks for confirming! That helped me narrow down where to look for the problem. For the benefit of anyone else who runs into this problem of sidebars disappearing when installing this template (which goes to show my amateur knowledge of Zen Cart), it is probably nothing to do with a faulty Sanguine template install, but rather something that happens frequently when installing any kind of template. Apparently, you have to reset the controller boxes by going to Admin > Tools > Layout Boxes Controller, then scroll to the bottom and push the little "Reset" button. That did the trick.

So in other words, in addition to not forgetting to "turn on" the sang_embed template in the admin, perhaps its important not to forget also to "reset" the layout boxes.