Parent/child forum problem

[pitviper]

VB 3.8

1. When I set my parent forums setting to "No One" I only can get only one of the main forums to set itself in a blue bar (like Vb's main forum page wherein "VB Sales" "VB 3.8" "VB 3.7" are all in Blue Bars and the sub forums are beneath with bill board icons). Only my first "No one" setting is in blue, (sub forums beneath it) all the others appear as bill board icons right in with the sub forums, however they do have a slight highlight shade, barely distinguishing them.
I would like them all to be in blue bars like VB.com page, preferably having a space between them like the space between "archives" and "what's going on" on VB.com page. How is this done?

2. When entering any subforum, the subforum tiltle is in a blue bar but is accompanied with "SUBFORUMS" written in bold text before the title, I searched a gad of templates trying to find which one would be doing this but to no avail . . . these templates should have more comments in them, they are to numerous and lengthy to scan to pin down which is doing which.
How do I get rid of the text "SUBFORUM"?

3. How do I Nix the welcome message?

Thanks for your time