>After all this, I've just gone over to my webmail page and I can't bear the all white pages and garish blue highlights provided by Yahoo. That's why I rejected webpage colours in the first place! SO I'll have to go back to that setting again. Of course, this still means that one can't see the login etc. buttons, or background images in panels if one rejects webpage colours on the UT (and, indeed, I presume, on any other webpage).
I think you should complaint to Yahoo for provided such a bad color settings. This is something they would have to think about.
To me, the ability provided by Microsoft to remove the color and background images is as if one could have the ability to remove the steering wheel of his cas after he got a license. I personally think this setting should not be there as it causes a lot of problems and confusion to the users and makes the users believe that some Web sites are not working properly.