[johnny]

Okay, if you want to make the background transparent, just open up a new file with the background color set to "transparent" (it's usually a drop-down menu with "white" selected as default). Create a new layer, color that in so you're not working with the headache-inducing checkerboard pattern, make your image, delete the colored layer and you should be able to save it as a .png with transparency preserved.

If you don't want to go through that, print screen a section of the forums, eyedrop the color, paintbucket it into the background and voila.