a simple question about the postbit
 

can anyone tell me where to change the background color as shown in attachment?

Here's a useful page in the manual: Thread Template
It looks like you would be interested in numbers 12 and 13 on that page.

oh my that is the clearest ever reply i've got. guess im caught being lazy

is there a way to have the background colors on the postbit be different from the first alternating and second alternating colors on the forum page?

ie: to have a dark colored forum, but have the postbit show up in white instead of the dark color...

In the postbit template, edit the css of the tags that surround those areas and change the class to something other then 'alt1' or 'alt2'... for example 'alt3' and 'alt4', then in the 'all style options' of your skin define those CSS classes(ex. alt3, alt4) in the 'Additional CSS Definitions' text box.

i know this sounds simple enough for someone that knows more about this than me, but could you break that down a little better for me on what 'exactly' to do? :)

i can find postbit template, but just what do i need to do when i get there? is there more than one place to edit? do i change alt 1 to alt 3 and alt 2 to alt 4? what exactly needs to be added to the 'additional CSS definitions' text box?

i am sure other people probably have these same questions that like the darker skins but do not want the dark postbit :)