I've changed the background colours as per your suggestion Kat, and tweaked the colour scheme roughly to suit for now (links and headers don't look great at the moment), is this the sort of thing you had in mind? If so I will change the colours of all the horizontal dotted rules etc as well but not yet incase this isn't what you are after. Footer to be sorted still.
Mehdi, please do your top banner at 960px wide, cheers.
"Twitter mod - can you put a heading of 'Twitter' on this with the twitter icon instead of 'Lloyd Yates' and the photo?" nope unfortunately, the only thing I have control over is the colours used. I can add a header above the box if you like?
