How about this icon for topics you've posted in.

Excellent, got it

I totally agree! Mike the board looks great, but you're right about the top banner being a bit plain. How bout a faded turtle background or something till you figure something else out

That's not a bad idea...

Mike,  in the shout box can you make the member names  BOLD  like the Today  is??

or maybe a different color,

I just made every link a *bit* darker again. The color code I am using right now is 464646 (HEX) or 70 70 70 (RGB). It was 505050 / 80 80 80. Next I'll try 3C3C3C / 60 60 60 which is one more step closer to black.

what's up with all the scroll bars on every post it's rather annoying!

You know, they old forum would do that on long posts and I never liked it because I feard that many people would not see the scroll bar and would miss like my last two whole paragraphs. There is not option to disable that, but I can view the page source and match the code with one of the source scripts and uncode it from the forum.

I'll be gone until about 10pm tonight. I just stopped back home for a bit for lunch, and now I am off for my afternoon classes.

Thanks for all of the feedback you guys, your voices are what make the difference