[Mike]

Oh, and it will not change the position and placement of users who have already visited the page.

Just to confirm, does that mean that if any user has already visited the “Your Directory Entry” page, these solutions listed above are not valid?

Categories are very important to this installation, so I am hoping to find a way to position that box to the left side, even above the name and organization fields. Do you know of a good way get this solved?

Setting page options to 1-column works well. But I need to avoid the extra step of having users chang escreen options.