Shoutbox

Hey.
Im a graphic designer, and...I was forced to update to 9.0. It's not half bad. Though now obviously I cannot use the 8.5 skins any longer. I was using the black background, with light text skin by Willz, for the longest time.

This is my issue. I have light sensitive eyes(pretty bad, wear sunglasses to see Google properly). Now that I have 9.0? I uploaded the Leopard skin, which rocks. But the "Typing Area" within the chat windows themselves is blinding bright white. It's killing my eyes.

There is a skin called "Asiatique Live 2009" I adore the "Faded Typing Area". I have located the code that is used to set the Transparency...

                <Control xsi:type="ComboBoxControl" Id="Convtspt">
                <Position Top="170" Width="80" Left="140"/>
                <Caption>Transparence de la conversation</Caption>
                </Control>

Would it be possible. Just for my own sake. To impliment this code into the Leopard "OptInterfaces" Codes and have it dim the Typing area in it like the "Asiatique Live 2009" has?

Please help. I'm borderlining using Trillian again, because I'm blowing through headache meds.

Or will I have to be forced to take a skinning/.xml crash course, and just make my own? Oh gawds. Please help.