[J99Eingehirner]

I don't know how this specific forum is programmed but I once administrated a forum where you had a very crappy interface that allowed you to change only the most basic things. If you took a look into the different PHP files, however, you could change EVERYTHING YOU WANTED - colors, styles, button images, etc etc etc. You just had to make sure that every single change from then on was made by hand because the API would otherwise reset your changes to default... but it might be worth a look regarding the black-buttons-and-quotes problem as well as the changed tab symbol when using other styles than default. Just a suggestion. It took me quite a while though to understand how it really worked