Can you cut and paste the spoiler section of your css file, tiggy? Maybe the syntax is messed up.

Jon, right now those boxes are all linkclusters, so it'd be li.linkclusters that are being altered--from your design POV is it important to have a visual difference between the verbs (read/message center/maintain) and the links to the more static or less-used pages--would you have them be different classes still?

I'm playing with just making them undressed up t li elements in css.net, and it looks okay so far, but distractingly uniform down the side.

I've noticed that sometimes when I go to my message center stuff on the right hand side disappears. Is it supposed to do that now?

this is what i have, ita.

.spoiler: { color: #8E2323; }

Lose the colon after the word spoiler.

aha! i swear i looked at that thing forever and could not figure out what was wrong. thanks, Jessica! that totally worked.

What she said, tiggy.

Is there a commonality to these sometimes, sumi? It's supposed to be there in exactly the cases it was supposed to be there before.

No, I don't know what the connection is.

sometimes lines/pixels/whatever in the columns will disappear for me, but if i scroll up or down past them and then back they show up. that happens with pretty much any site i go to that has css though.

Yes, it's like Beep Me, etc. are spoiler fonted - they appear when I mouse over them.

from your design POV is it important to have a visual difference between the verbs (read/message center/maintain) and the links to the more static or less-used pages--would you have them be different classes still?

No, actually, I think it's better, design-wise, if they're the all the same class. I'm not sure why we ever made them different.