As for yourself garland.... use a different skin... i know its a crude answer but unless your willing to edit the program code for the skin then this is how it is... whoever made the skin put the text as white.... i downloaded the "three" skin last night and i couldn't make out some of the writing so i went into the folders in the skin's directory till i found a folder called backgrounds and in there was a picture labelled "default" i deleted it and added my own picture and named it default... then when i loaded the game my new darker background picture was there which let me see the text more clearly.. give it a go!!!!