Mike,

>So? The UT doesn't follow Windows Guidlines anywhere, why should this be different? ;-)

*g*

>Honestly, I set mine to an offwite greyish color on purpose (though, not as dark as teh default) because I set the message background to white when reading messages, not editting them. I also set the background of the whole UT to white.

It's just not obvious where any of these configuration settings are now being made, at first I looked on the Account Setup page and didn't find any setting that controlled it. I assumed it was just the way things now worked so I complained (nothing unusual there *bg*) and Nick pointed me to the right configuration point.

I am glad it's changeable, just doesn't have a good set of defaults for those of us just now seeing the new UI for the first time.