As much as I hate it, I'm using the default because, in time, I'll be making my images for the gallery to work with the background. Images that I made in the past with black background in mind really look bad on this new off white. I'm still contemplating removing my gallery and starting over. Just waiting to see if osity stays with this for the gallery or not. As for the forums, the white text on the black background is ok. The brown is not very inspirational and I don't find myself going to Poser or Bryce to try things out like I used to after reading a thread. This brown is just drab and that's all there is to it.