jl> Bleh. I need to figure out why my messages are being transmitted in dark
 jl> blue. :/

Probably because you're putting pipe color codes in the quote header!  Those
become part of the message text and will be handled differently on each BBS
the messages land on.

This message looks fine, because it doesn't have your quote header in it.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A1 (Windows)
 * Origin: Sector 7 [Mystic BBS WHQ] (1:129/215)