CSS Templates
I'd love to update some of my sites - they could sure use some updating.
But I'm crap at web design. The whole "pretty" thing is sadly out of my reach. I want someone to design the layout, make it beautiful, cut it up and send me css+markup that I can skin the site with.
I've actually started asking around, and found some people that can do this for various sums of money - $750 was the cheapest for a single page. $1500 was the most expensive, but also the most reassuring; he talked about XHTML compliance and testing in the latest version of all major browsers (two versions in IE).
Both probably excellent value for money, given that you get what you pay for.
BUT, having written a CMS and thought at length about making it easy to skin 90% of site designs without touching code, I have to wonder if there isn't a more simple answer (for me at least). There are a lot of sites that sell templates - or swap them for a link, sell thousands on a DVD, etc, etc. Lots of permutations - and a lot of sites doing it.
There is no "one-on-one" interaction here of course. Take the template and modify it. But that doesn't sound too hard, given that I'd be doing it not the guy running the local Laundr-o-mat.
So, I'd love to hear some real-life recommendations - especially from Designers who know what they are looking at. Developer opinions will, in this case, count for only 50% of what a Designer tells me 
You'll notice that I'm a bit in awe of Designers since I put them in Title Case - developers don't get that, at least not in this context. No, I'm hoping to hear from people who can draw faces that look like faces, who can draw chrome and understand how to use little smudges here and there to make a design appear 3D. Designers who can make a site POP.
Hell, we have some of those people in-house...perhaps I can ping one or two during XBox time one day