Post status icons

[paul4]

Hi, newbie here.

Wow, two sets of vBulletin forums, only just found this one

We have recently decided to move our 10 year old message board (6000 members) to vBulletin. We have managed to customise the board to match our style, but have a few things I cannot do. The "old" message board system relied on CSS as a customisation "tool", I'm not sure where to start on vBulletin. It is difficult to move to a.n.other system as the methods and terminology are alien, but this (as best I can explain it) is one of my requirements.

re. Post Status Icons. I don't want several of the Post Status Icons: "Hot Threads"; "No New Posts "and "You have posted in this thread" ones - leaving me with the two I do want which are the "New Posts" and the "Thread is closed". I have only found removal options for the "hot thread" ones in the CP, so i removed them.

I found a thread on "the other forum" and from that I deduced that there were no removal options in the CP for the others? So, I made some replacement 1px x 1px icons as described but these show as a dot ,since they are displayed against a black and a grey background on my board I had to choose one of the two colours (maybe transparency is somehow an option I could look at). The problem is that the "key" explaining the meaning of the symbols remains at the bottom.

How would I remove this please?

Reiterating, I just want a "New Posts" symbol and the words "new Posts", and a "locked symbol" and the words "Thread is locked"

thanks