I did take time to read the answers people posted for me and I tried every single one of them including your latest attempt at helping... Despite what you seem to think of me I am capable of reading and I did read through the doc that came with the module, in this case it was a very nicely formated chm file that helped me get the additional things I wanted done completed. But no matter what combination of transparency options I tried it still gave me the pink text on any text that was being updated. And ElkMonster said that he tried it out and had a similar problem. Rather than just trying to make it seem like I am some worthless moron you might have taken the time to see that I was not posting useless information but responding to each of the answers people offered including your own. I appreciate all of the help that was offered in helping me get a transparent clock that I wanted for my theme done and while grdtransparent may be a roundabout way to get it done it is working the way I want it to work and unless someone had a similar situation and found a solution that I didn't try or wasn't suggested it is what I am going to continue using.