I like the picture and the copy of the new one, but I don't like the background color.
If you could use a green that was about 75% of the color of the messsage board background I think it would look nicer, also maybe a different font (stencil is kind of hard to read) I'd go with something like the font in the old one).
now you got me thinking I should do a sig pic too /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
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