Originally Posted by Hoopyfrood

See how in the vbPlaza section, we define the glow effect, but then in the board section we then explicitly set the background color to #666666 (the board's light grey). I tested by removing the background color, and suddenly my glow effect appeared.
A second test I performed was to grab the css sheet and apply that, and it turns out that the explicit declaration of background color for the username isn't necessary. The css sheet seems to apply the correct color behind it. It also doesn't seem to break other browsers like FF, so while they still won't show the glow effect the background color isn't affected either.