Quote - Question though: Is this how it's supposed to work?  Do the PTB expect people to fiddle with scripts like this to get it how they want?

To a certain extent, yes. That's the nature of democracy - it requires effort. ;-)

In the old ez forums there was a colour-picker type device for customising the Rendo appearance. In that sense we've gone backwards because we no longer have that direct visual tool. But the new system, despite needing much more user input, has much more control over nearly everything. Not just colour, but layout too.

Anyways, to get the cascading style sheets (CSS) to work:

When you are in the galleries, there will be a link near the top called "my options". Click on that and look for a data entry box called "My Style". That's where you paste the block of code you copy from posts in threads like this. Or that's where you go in and edit the existing code.

There's a sticky thread in this forum
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2652220
where you can pick up many schemes to try.