WP Design Themes
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What everyone had said is spot-on advice.
If you're scared of the php part, just don't worry about it at first and see how far you can get with only HTML/CSS mods. You'll be able to do quite a bit without touching any php at all.
But that being said, you really do need to know at least a little bit to get your theme to do exactly what you want it to do. Using a bit of php can help you avoid plugin overload by moving some of the basic functionality you need into your own custom theme.
TwentyTen is a good theme to start with, but I still prefer to use the old-school Sandbox (http://wordpress.org/extend/the... even though some of its features are outdated. I have my own slightly modified version of Sandbox that I use as a starting point for all of my WP builds.