Shoutbox

Do this and you should beable to see your text better in the convo window.

First open windowblinds and add WLM like this:



Then open wlm contact window and do this:




If it is still hard to read you can always download skinstudio and edit the windowblinds skin yourself. It's really easy to do (minor modifications like this) and if you want to take that route, let me know and I will tell you what to edit to change just the background color so its lighter (or another color all together).

EDIT:

Come to think of it... I think you can edit the text color also (in skinstudio) but it would be system wide...