I congratulate you on the Atahualpa theme. I've looked though lots of them and this is definitely the best one!

I need to know how to put the contact form on the center column of the contact page. Until now I've only been able to figure out how to make it appear on either the left or right columns -- on every page. Obviously, that is not how it should be...

But there must be a simple way to do this, but being a newby at this I am unable to figure it out.

Thanks!

The left and right colums are the sidebars and Widgets go there.If you want the contact form to go in the center colum you need to make it part of a 'Page' or 'Post'

There are directions to do this in the help section of the cform section of the WordPress dashboard

To flesh out what juggledad told you:

I think Cforms works like other form creation plugins. Create a new Page or Post. You should see an icon for Cforms in the editing icon group. Put your cursor where you want the form to go, click on the Cforms icon, and a code will appear in your post or page. You won't see the actual form until you preview or publish. This of course presupposes that you have created a form already using the Cforms settings. If you have more than one form, you'll choose it from a drop-down list as you insert it into your page.