When a user views say.. your journal, and you've selected it to be a 'custom' journal [like the
screenshot of Aoi from Ai Yori Aoshi], the user will see what
you've designed. If you view the user's journal, you will see what the
user has designed, whether they choose a 'custom' journal or a 'template'.
It's beautiful because it is
that configurable.

People have the option of having their own personalities.
As far as trying this out with existing entries, the only reason this won't work with them is because the
journal_display template is edited and changed into the new 'custom' user designs template.. and the default
journal_display template has been renamed to
journal_deftemp. I just forgot about this all together and decided to release it anyway. I'm sure someone out there will find some use for this as-is.
I'll fix all of this eventually because I do plan on continue working with this. I won't lie to you - if Anime-loo codes a journal with the customized modifications that I've made to this one, then I will go for his hands down because he is a
much better coder than I am and I give him props. This is a really good learning experience for me so I might as well go ahead and take advantage of it.
There are a number of things I'm planning on playing with for this. First and foremost, I plan on securing what I've written as a whole. Secondly, since your beating me with store integration (

), I'll try to grab Lesane's store and play with the whole process. Third, the miscellaneous features that've been mentioned here I've been working on already on and off. And so far, some of them are coming along pretty well. The others are coming along not so well.. but that's really due to my lack of coding experience.
Give me a little time and I'm sure I'll come up with something worthwhile. No promises, but it's the thought that counts, no?