<font color="gray">duke, do you have some kind of script that does that gray text quote thing? </font>
Yeah. I use Greasemonkey scripts. I've been too lazy to do it for the "quote" reply option (which I still use at times), but here is one to jam stuff into the quick reply area:
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var body_tag = document.getElementsByName("Body")[0]
if(body_tag.value=="") body_tag.value = "<font color="gray"></font>"
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EDIT: In the last set of quotes, you'll need to put the code to have the color. View source to see it, as I guess the "code" blocks won't let the most relevant code here slip through.
Oh, and here's one to make that left nav thing be transparent instead of that sick green (it just happens to be the first TD tag in the document every time).
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document.getElementsByTagName("TD")[0].bgColor = "transparent"
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