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first, make a good backup of your db… then grab 4.2 (yes, its RC 1, but will release by this weekend barring and catastrophes)…

remove the current simple-forum directory and all its contents before uploading the new one…

then, try to upgrade…

now, a few folks have had trouble upgrading from far back, it works for most… hence the reason for the db backup… if it fails, we will get you 4.0 and go there first…

please keep us abreast of the progress…

good work! thanks for letting us know…

There are quite a few classes/styles that may be defined in code but are not in the skin stylesheet. These tend to be those that we feel most people will not want to change that much but gives them the freedom to change without having to touch the code itself.

So – for signatures – take a look at the entry:

#sforum .sfposttable .sfsignaturestrip p, #sforum .sfposttable .sfsignaturestrip a, #sforum .sfposttable .sfsignaturestrip img

This has a colour of #333333 so you may want to change this. #FFFFFF would gove you white text for example.

But for the stats, the entries do not exist so you will want to add them. Define (in the stats area of the css):

sfstatsheader, sfstatsdata, sfstatsonline, sfstatscounts, sfstatstitle, sfstatsgroups, sfstatsforums, sfstatstopics, sfstatsposts, sfstatsmembers, sfstatstop, sfstatsfooter {
    color: #FFFFFF;
}

Although change the coloue for your choice. ~or break them up to give different areas different colours.

I would also look into renaming your skin to a custom name to preserve it from future updates.