I tried that, but I'm using a different theme and the files are different. I tried to look in my storytext.thtml file, and I tried to add the bold commands but it had no effect. Here is the storytext.thtml file from my theme. Maybe you can take a look and figure out where I need to add <b></b>
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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td>
<table width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
bgcolor="#0ba5a3" background=/layout/LCD/images/backscan-blue.jpg><tr><td class="storytitle" width="100%"
nowrap> {story_title}<font size=1>[by
{start_contributedby_anchortag}{contributedby_user}{end_contributedby_anchortag}]</font></td>
<td class="storytitle" width="15%" nowrap align="right" height="30">{email_icon} {print_icon} </td></tr></table>
</td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="storybox" colspan="2">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td width="100%"
bgcolor=#ffffff>{story_date}<br />{lang_contributed_by} {start_contributedby_anchortag}{contributedby_user}{end_contributedby_anchortag}
| <a href=/submit.php?type=story>Submit a Story</a><br /><!--# {lang_views}: {story_hits} --></td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="story">
<p>{story_anchortag_and_image}{story_introtext}</p>
</td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="1"
cellspacing="10" width="100%">
<tr><td align="center">{edit_link}</td></tr>{story_bodyhtml}
</table></td>
</tr></table>
<br />