hey lorentz, thanks
I am actually thinking of working on an alternate skin which would use light text on a dark background. (such as the kind that is seen on a lot of gaming forums). This new skin would form the basis for the Kaldris interface.
It wouldn't actually be that much hard work because vb3 has a "skin heirarchy" - ie. if I changed something in the "master skin" it'd propogate to the customised skin as well. The kaldris forum is an example of this - it has a different header.
The default skin will stay as it is though