You could always get
Firefox, and follow these instructions:
http://persistent.info/archives/2004...gmail-skinning
but in your custom .css file, use vbmenu_control#wickedfire-com { background: #000; } or whatever you would like.
blindpete, we have flashing green or flashing orange or flashing red lights around here, telling you that it's either a pedestrian controlled cross-walk, to be careful, or that the intersection's a 4-way stop. I understand that you can tell at regular lights what is green/red based on which of the 3 are lit, but what do you do with the lights as mentioned above?