Hi jaywill, welcome to EvCforum.
Here is a hint on how to quote text in your messages, so that they are a little easier to read.
You can simply use
[qs]text to be quoted[/qs]
which will appear in your messages as
text to be quoted
By the way, "qs" stands for "quote shaded".
Other hints: Use the "peek" button near the bottom right of a message, to see how another poster did it. When you are editing, there is a "Peek mode" you can select to allow you to see the original source of the message to which you are responding. To the left of the editor window, there is a link for "dBCodes On(help)" that you can select to see the various options available.