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Considering what you've done with the layout, you should consider changing the "no new posts" image to a transparent gif or png. Now there's an ugly black square which contrasts too much with the background.
Come to think of it, if you're still seeing those images, I have no idea what stylesheet you must have. Isn't there a way of forcing - from the server side - a full refresh? That actually /works?/
I hadn't thought about it because I used to use a method of transparency that makes everything within the table transparent, but what I'm using now just applies alpha to the bgcolor. So I knocked out the background on the "new" / "not new" images so we didn't have ugly squares, but there's no reason I couldn't use .png alpha or just the alpha channel code I used to use to make the "n" itself transparent, if that's what you're talking about.