" You can change your background and text colors to your preference." No, you can't... You can choose the forum background and text, you can even choose the forum link and visited colours, but the sidebar, that's still white on light brown... Because if you select white text, then the sidebar text is white, regardless of the fact that all the "text" is actually links, except for the static user count at the top of the page. If you're going to come in here and tell us what we can and can't do, at least get your facts right! later jb