I'm trying to get my head around Drupal theming...

I have a tagadelic block with links of users' interests. I click on a link (eg surfing) and it shows a list of user profiles who like to surf.

How to I theme the user profile list? I tried copying node.tpl.php to profile-node.tpl.php but off course that changes the profile node page view as well.

To recap, I want to theme a user profile as a summary to show in taxonomy and search lists.

Any help please?

Thanks,

Steve