I have NEVER played with Skins before, so please be patient with me..

1. If I wanted to change the BACKGROUND color of the contact list, which is currently a greyish white, to black... where would I change this?

This will also require me to change the color of the names in the contact list... so

2. Where do I change the COLOR of the names in the contact list?

Can I also do this for the actual messages I am typing?

Thank you for your indulgence..

JP in Atlanta