>Well,
>
>The quotes did not come out very well in my post -- I put a single quote, a double quote and a single quote to get the quote.
>
>Hey, how did you guys get the white background on your posts?
>

Terry,

Put the code inside of < pre> and < /pre> HTML tags (without the spaces). Like this:

*   see, it preserves    spacing     alignment

If you have "enable auto quote" on (under Tools), you will see the tags when you hit reply.