Manual talk:Footer

Using MW1.6.8 and when viewed through IE7 the footer links are all shown in one long line. Wikipedia doesnt have this problem. I thought I would disable the poweredby icon but I'm not sure how. Any suggestions?

Footer not wrapping
I disabled the nowrap line inside main.css and it now folds nicely. Look for the comment 'hide from incapable browsers' and comment the next line out.

More generic solution?
The manual mentions: "For example if you go in to MonoBook.php you will find the following code" and "this must be done for each template". Both statements are true, but the code in the various skins are not identical. I'm not familiar with php, so what I could find is the '$footerlinks' solution in Monobook and something to do with 'bottomLinks' in CologneBlue, Nostalgia and 'Standard'. However, I'm not sure how to modify this code, and I have no idea how other skins work. It would be nice if someone could describe this topic in more detail.

Ultimately my goal would be to add something to the footer for all skins. I definitely want to enable the copyright statement (which I can probably do in LocalSettings, I'll look it up), but it would also be nice to add some plain text, e.g. like Wikipedia has ("Wikipedia® is a registered trademark...").