Honestly – I don’t care about about the colours – as long as we keep getting the grewat content. The white is probably just a little bright, try #eeeeee or something close to (but not quite) white and it’ll look good.
What I am noticing is major delays (10,15,20 seconds) between each forum page, which is being caused by waiting for loading images (according to the info bar in my browser). Have you changed the ways you cache the images?