Sympathies, Heather. As you might have noticed, Joyce is pretty good with wallpapering and she's gotten into some real messes in the prep stages. We've tried the steamers with only spotty results. Finally abandoned them every time we've tried. I'm sure some of the advice above might work, but we've always wound up resorting to just a sponge, lots of water and a 4" putty knife. It's slow going, but we haven't encountered any wallpaper glue get that wouldn't give in to it.

As for extensive mudding — if you have to resort to that, make sure you "size" the walls before you paint. It seals the mud and makes it hold paint much better.

Good luck,

david