I believe that one of the best practices of styling everything is that if you set a different background colour, it's a good idea to also set the text colour, lest different browsers/themes wreck it.
*hugs rapidly* Megan is the best :) Ahahahahahaha! Got to say that I love your profile, too. :p
(I tried experimenting with these dots in borders with browsers, and as it turns out, Firefox and IE love circles. FF got it mashed up at the corners, though. :\)