Hey guys do you think we should have a lighter background as that is what this theme is designed for and it would look a lot cleaner, as atm some of the stuff is dark text on dark background
I think you should leave the background colour as it is. You can easily edit the CSS to change the text colours/link colours.
In fact I was telling Xinapse last night on MSN that this is one of the best forum themes I've ever seen, I know it's already a theme not made by Xinapse, but he's modified it very well.