Folks, I’m trying to learn how to use widgets and am playing around with links. They are NOT working quite as I had planned. In fact I somehow erased all my hurricane links. Don’t go there, I was very annoyed. I may end up just getting rid of widgets and hardcoding it all. But that means every time I change to a new ‘theme’ I have to move all that stuff. Unless I can find a way to put it in a separate file. I’m looking… but it is time consuming and I don’t have much time. That and I have to keep giving the wordpress books back to the library. GRIN
If you come to my sight and see links all over and then the next time they are only on the right side… it’s just me. Not you. Please be patient. 
I think WordPress 2.7 will fix the widgets…I hope. Moving them in the current version is a pain, and yes, if you remove it you lose it.