Searching the code for <font shows 120 hits, but a bunch of them are irrelevant, and I don’t know how many of them are dead. Even so, if each pmdevil patched one or two of those, they’d all be gone. It’s less work than meets the eye.

I’m in the process of patching all the poll stuff.

Makeshifts last the longest.

Well, here's one where the colors don't seem to be hardcoded, but I'm not seeing the words anyhow:

      <tr class="titlebar">
        <td class="titlebar">

          <form method="get" action="?"
              enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" >
            <img src="./images/clearpixel.gif" width="5"
                height="1" alt="" class="spacer" />
            <input type="text" name="node"
                size="20" maxlength="80" />
            <input class="titlebar" type="submit"
                value="Search" name="go_button" />
          </form>
        </td>

        <td class="titlebar" id="mb2001titlebar" align="right" >
          <a class="titlebar" href="?" >
            Perl&nbsp;Monks
          </a>
        </td>
      </tr>
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And my CSS:

tr.titlebar , tr.monkquip {
    color :            #0000aa;
    background-color : #ffffff;
}
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The funny think is, the monkquip displays properly, but the titlebar does not.

Try either less or more specifity. Either just .titlebar, so all elements with the class are addressed directly (instead of having to inherit their colours from the <tr>), or add a couple more specific ones like td.titlebar, input.titlebar.

Specificity is a pretty important concept in CSS, and if you don’t understand it, then the cascading and inheritance of things will occasionally snare you in baffling ways.

Makeshifts last the longest.