For those of you, who might have an intrest in this (NPN Theme design N00bs like me
) I worked this one out myself, here is how i did it.
The middle column of blocks in pnp 7.6 can be effectivley dressed up by:
taking your blocks.html file, spliting it up, into two chunks of code, everything before the variable ($content) in the body of your block, and everything after.
lets call the first chunk your "custom open table code" and the part after your "custom close table code"
Take those two chunks of code, and use the nuke tools to convert this HTML code to php code.
once you have converted them, they are ready to be used in the correct PHP file.
look in the YOUR_THEME folder,
example: /var/www/themes/MY_THEME if you are on a webserver
you will notice, a theme.php file. if you do not, then you are either confused about where to look, or you are way ahead of yourself and should come back to this post after you have built your theme.php file.
if you only see a theme.php most likely you need to modify this file, but depending on what HOWTO or tutorial or templates you used to design your theme, there might be a seperate file containing the code you need to modify. some themes use one set of open table functions and some use two, maybe more. regardless, you need to modify the one that creates the table you want to dress up.
So, you might find the open table functions (one or two sets) in theme.php or in tables.php or functions.php look around, when you find a set of OpenTable functions, you need to figure out which one to modify.
The easiest way I know of is to examine the open tables code, look for the table tag eg. <table..... and modify it like this <table name=XXX .... save up and go reload your nuke page in the browser. view the source of the page and see if the table in your page has the XXX, using this technique I determine which table in the open tabels functions is the outer table, Once I know that, I modify the function.
Editing my function I replace the open table code with my CUSTOM OPEN TABLE CODE that I converted to PHP, then I repace the matching close table code with my CUSTOM CLOSE TABLE CODE.
save up and reload the nuke page in the browser, it should now be dressed in your block graphics.
I cant say this enough, if you dont *BACK UP YOUR FILES* you are going to mess up and loose em eventually. Good luck, no waranty, mod at your own risk
and installed it and it is working, however, it seems, that the central column, was not fully affected by my efforts, they seem to be CSSed but not dressed in my fancy graphics. 
Blocks like navigation, and user info etc, look just fine, and news stories on front page are dressed in my graphics, but the shoutbox is not. when clicking on account, the 3 columns appear with dressed blocks on left and right but everything in center column seems vannila. Did I forget to create a file or something? :? 
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