Lachlan,
By far, the most important issue facing beginners with regards to standards is the separation of semantics, presentation and behavioural layers into well structured, valid, non-presentational markup; CSS and javascript, respectively, and it sounds like you've already made significant steps toward these goals already.
Just to be clear I've understood a concept you mention above, could you show an example of javascript used as layered, non-presentational markup and one that is not?
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