No offense to the user-created styles and wrappers but I wonder if it wouldn't benefit ubbthreads as a product if you guys hired a really pro graphic designer that specializes in stylesheets to develop half a dozen or more awesome styles. Code is one thing, visuals are another. I was recently at Webvisions in Portland and came across an extremely bright gal, Jina Bolton, who lectured on "creating sexy style sheets" - she's 23, has a design degree and works for Apple. Might do well to email her. Check out...

http://creatingsexystylesheets.com
and
http://jinabolton.com/