After scratching my head a few times, and playing with the various widths of the vBhome Lite templates, it finally dawned on me why the width was being strange like that. Turns out one of the articles about the DVD release of "What's Happening" had a string of asterisks that were too long, and pushed the width out a bit. Damn you Rerun!
All should be normal now with the width of the home page.
Good thing to make a mental note on for future home page articles. Thanks.