Problem with "header_background" Background Colour

[yospeck]

The layout of my forum was originally my background in place (a cloud background) that stretches the height of the page put into 'doc_background'. The logo originally was a graphic logo on a transparent background, the width is the width of the content body and the height is around 250px to give the padding I want between the navbar and the top of the page. You can see how the image sits with the green bounding box (cropped slightly on the top).

As the background of the logo is transparent I made the 'header_background' transparent (otherwise it looked like it was sat on a large grey block, which was the original colour). However, I then later noticed that the 'header_background' colour was also changing the colour of the text in the member profiles (as shown below) setting it to transparent. So then if I change the colour back to grey so you can see the text... it makes the transparent logo sit on a grey block.

As a work around I turned the logo from a transparent background .png to a full colour image so there is no show through of the grey (however as you can see in the picture, the style automatically created a padding on the baseline between the picture and the navbar showing a thin grey line. Also, while the forum pics are loading, there's a horrible grey block before the logo loads up.

Is there any way to make it so that the 'header_background' colour doesn't effect both the header background and the profile text? (why it does this in the first place is beyond me ). Cheers guys.

[Attitude5ire]

Goto header template, change the class or add a new class, then add the colors for header in your css. That way only your new class i.e in header will take those colors and wnt affect profile page.