Here ya go man , check this out , this is Afterburner's colored online user's hack :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...colored+online
and since you said it doesn't matter which version , it can be changed I am assuming you know enough to just make your own stars and add the <img src='star.gif'> in the appropriate spots , really simple and easy , I just did it to my forums , thanks for the idea.
Screenshot of what I've done so far :
Hope that helped if you need more help than this let me know.