[trulylowcarb]

Thanks everyone, if people want to post there variation, post it up here in the thread. This is a super simple but clean way of organizing those pesky signatures.

Thanks so much for your post, and your graciousness too.
I ultimately used your post as pointers on where to change the stock signature. I wasn't totally happy with the changes as you wrote them, so I haven't marked as installed, but I used your post to help me modify the signature to look better.... I always hated that stupid __________ line, and always wanted a different background, so instead of doing just as you said, and adding anything to the exra css, I simply changed the postbit legacy code a bit, and I am much happier with the appearance now.

As per your encouragement to share, here is my template hook for the sig now:

$template_hook[postbit_signature_start]
$ad_location[ad_showthread_firstpost_sig]
    <if condition="$post['signature']">
  <!-- sig --><br /><br />
   <div span class='alt2'>
    <hr>
    $post[signature]
   </div>
  <!-- / sig -->
  </if>
  $template_hook[postbit_signature_end]

This is what mine looks like now - I also moved it to above the controls.