Help needed

[Bradley Navarro]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me solve two problems I am having. 
I am using the report class in LyX 1.3.3. Here are the problems/questions:

1) How can I change the main chapter headings and chapter titles so that 
they are not bold? As a second part to that question, how can I make it 
so that the chapters are not bold in the TOC?

2) How can I change the vertical space both before and after the chapter 
title? For example,

[I want to change this space]
Chapter 1
[I want to change this space]
Chapter title
[I want to change this space]
I looked at Herbert's website which does give code to do this very 
thing, but I get several error messages such as missing \begin{document} 
and undefined control sequence. The undefined control sequence errors 
occur at the beginning of each chapter.

Here is the code given on his page for quick reference:

\usepackage{calc}
\newlength{\topspace}
\setlength{\topspace}{2in%   <---- the whole vertical space
    -\topmargin%    <--- predefined
    -\headheight%          ...
    -\headsep%             ...
    -\topskip}             ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \vspace*{\topspace}% <---- the space above
 {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
   \ifnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
       \huge\bfseries [EMAIL PROTECTED] \thechapter
       \par\nobreak
       \vskip [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--- the space between Chapter # - title
     \fi
   \fi
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
   \vskip [EMAIL PROTECTED] <---- the space below
 }
}
Any help would be much appreciated as these are the final changes 
necessary for my thesis.

Thanks,
Brad