I needed a Login Block that was much smaller (height) then the standard login.php block. Look at my hacking result:
http://www.godesoto.com : Upper right-hand side of page
Here's the code change that I used. This probably could have been completed a lot cleaner but it works and is less then half the height as the original. :)
$boxstuff = '<form action="user.php" method="post" style="display:inline">';
$boxstuff .= '
';
$boxstuff .= ''."Username"." "."Password".' |
';
$boxstuff .= '<input type="text" name="uname" size="6" maxlength="25" /> <input type="password" name="pass" size="6" maxlength="20" /> |
';
$boxstuff .= ' ';
$boxstuff .= '<input type="hidden" name="module" value="NS-User" />';
$boxstuff .= '<input type="hidden" name="op" value="login" />';
$boxstuff .= '<input type="hidden" name="url" value="' .$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REQUEST_URI'].'" />';
$boxstuff .= '<input type="submit" value="'._LOGIN.'" /> |
';
$boxstuff .= ' '._ASREGISTERED.' |
|
</form>';