once I updated to Atahualpa 3.7.13 and put the fixes previously used in the functions.php they did not work so need new fixes for woocommerce making sidebar and footer not work properly
also using WP 3.8 -> very impressed.

to keep me from having to dig, please point to the thread giving the previous fix.

haha! I just knew you were going to say that, searching this forum is getting harder, what I can do quickly is paste the notes I made about it:

changed functions.php to deal with double sidebar in woocomm pages added:
edit the atahualpa file public_html/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/function.php:

add_action('wp', create_function("", "if (is_archive(array('product'))) remove_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar', 'woocommerce_get_sidebar', 10);") );
//Unhook (remove) the WooCommerce sidebar on individual product pages

add_action('wp', create_function("", "if (is_singular(array('product'))) remove_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar', 'woocommerce_get_sidebar', 10);") );
//Unhook (remove) the WooCommerce sidebar on all pages

remove_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar', 'woocommerce_get_sidebar', 10);
before closing ?>

The search for these fixes took some time so let me know if I still need to find the original posts and I'll get back to you in a day or so.

oops, missed one:

fix footer after woocommerce breaks it

edit /public_html/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/footer.php and change line 3 from:

if (!isset($bfa_ata))
to:
if ((!isset($bfa_ata)) or (class_exists('Woocommerce')) )

did you make sure any caching plugin was turned off?

Try this
1) remove the changes from function.php - they are not needed
2) edit footer.php and change line 3 from

if (!isset($bfa_ata))

to

if ((!isset($bfa_ata)) or (class_exists('Woocommerce')) )

create a file 'sidebar.php' and put it in the theme folder and put this in it

<?php 
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// dummy sidebar.php that calls get_footer() to handle oddity in Woommerce 
//
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
get_footer(); 
?>

and see if that works.

that has worked thanks