>Is there another way? I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Hopefully there's not another tunnel around the corner. Many thanks!

In the Documentation, under BackColor. Take a look at the nColor table, thats the colors, also, if you're not familiar with teh RGB values, look at the RGB function. If you're still at a loss, click on Examples, you should find this:

BackColor = RGB(255,0,0) && Red