You can easily make your own side column with CSS and 2 template edits. For anyone that can't get USC or others to work try this.
To your additional CSS of your style add:
#Content {
margin:0px 25px 25px 175px;
padding:5px;
}
#Menu {
position:absolute;
top:118px;
left:20px;
width:172px;
padding:10px;
background-color:#eee;
border:1px dashed #999;
line-height:17px;
voice-family: ""}"";
voice-family:inherit;
width:150px;
}
Then at the bottom of your navbar template put:
<div id="Content">
Then in your footer template after $ad_location[ad_footer_end] put:
</div>
<div id="Menu">
Side Column, Fill with whatever crap i want!!
</div>
You may need to alter some of the CSS to get everything to line up correctly, but thats as easy as changing numbers :)