[Capper5016]

I completely understand, and agree.... on helping yourself. I've read each and every post in this thread and can understand your reluctance in even answering most questions.

My feeling on the questions I'm asking are that they are ones that might extend the flexibility of this mod for most users. Instead of just installing and running the basics, they see that there are several different, and very useful methods of implementing it. It takes it from a simple "Helpful answers" mod to something much more.

Code:
<if condition="$threadinfo[toppost] == $post[postid]">This is the top rated post!</code>
Using the same logic you could for example add to the table cell holding the post contents to change its color.

Changing the color is exactly what I was looking at....but wasnt sure what specific template to edit. I think a lot of the issue I'm running into is what should be edited as a template, and what I should be editing in phrases.

I think it would really help people out to add stuff like the code above to the second post as well.