OK, I sorted out what was wrong here... In case anyone else makes the same mistake, here's what you need to know:
1) It doesn't matter which of the sideboxes you choose to use, but if you want the title to be a link, you need to make sure the appropriate file in includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/*.php has the variable $title_link set properly.
2) Therein lies my mistake. I just assumed that since I didn't want the value to be "false", then I must've wanted it to be "true". The logical value of True was correctly being passed into the link as the link parameter "index.php?main_page=1" instead of "index.php?main_page=wordpress" as it should've been. My wp_sidebar.php had it correct, but since I had that sidebox disabled, it took awhile to trackdown that I had used the wrong value when I changed my sidebox $title_link!!
Now with that corrected, I'll see if I can get permalinks working with Hira's SEO instructions. It does seem like a bit of a disconnect, though -- all the recommendations here say to install the ZC and WP code into the same directory in order to avoid unspecified probable issues, but Hira's instructions indicate that they should be in different directories for the SEO instructions. I'm hoping that is just a detail based on his experimentation, though, and off I go to try to get it working with them both installed in the root directory!
Hope this helps someone following in my (wrong) footsteps!
Karen
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