RE: Groups Color and Background... I solved the problem, i saved the image as png, then with wsftp renamed "lvback.png" to "lvback.gif" and it worked =P hope it helps someone
RE: Groups Color and Background... I Opened it in photoshop, select all, cut, new "clipboard size" paste save for web, lvback.gif. i also wanna say that the same lvbakc used to work with msn messenger 7.X