Version conflict and background problem

[matt_turpin]

I recently upgraded from 3.6.7 to 3.6.8 to use the vblog plugin. On the admin control panel, it says there's a conflict in the footer. My style is a custom style originally made for 3.6.5, but until now, there hasn't been any issue upgrading. I tried hitting revert and all it seemed to do was get rid of the fancy graphical border on my footer and replace it with plain flatcolors. Surely this isn't the real incompatability? I want to make my footer compatable with the latest version, but not at the cost of the nice look. Here's a link to my forums if it'll help.

www.buchisdma.com/forums

My second question relates to the blog itself. It meshed surprisingly well with my existing theme. All I had to do really was copy some images over to the custom theme folder. However, you'll notice some dead white space around the blog's menu boxes where the background doesn't want to cover. If anyone knows how I can fix this, I'd appreciate it.