It's true. I've experimented with vBulletin templates all over the place on my board, though, and it appears that trying to use calls to functions in the middle of tags doesn't work. Hell, they don't even seem to work in posts - I tried typing $post[backcolor] which is supposed to give the background colour of the post, and it just writes $post[backcolor] where it's supposed to say the number.

I might ask Tau someday how he would do it when he's not swamped. I'm sure there's a way; I just have no clue what it is. I'll get back to you if ever I find out. Yeah, it looks blotchy the way I did it, but I kinda prefer having blotchiness to having slightly visible text. That's probably just me though.

Peace
Aaron