1 You can look up all the breadcrumb stuff in vbulletin-chrome.css. Some of the stylevars used are lightweightbox_background, imodhilite_backgroundColor, linkhover_color, etc.
2 You could add something to your additional.css to give it a background color. Something like:
HTML Code:
.above_threadlist .threadpagenav {background-color: blue; padding: 5px; }
That is the same CSS class you would use to modify the position.