yes, removing the fieldset tags did remove the border but it also screwed up other settings for the block as well. It completely went nuts.
sooo, how about just changing the color of the border and maybe the thickness of the border to match the inner border.
(the inner border changes via css with no problem)
About the only other thing I can figure is that the center, leftcenter, etc.. are all contained within 1 table as opposed to having each within its own table. An example of the theme html is below...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<{$xoops_langcode}>" lang="<{$xoops_langcode}>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=<{$xoops_charset}>" />
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="<{$xoops_langcode}>" />
<meta name="robots" content="<{$xoops_meta_robots}>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<{$xoops_meta_keywords}>" />
<meta name="description" content="<{$xoops_meta_description}>" />
<meta name="rating" content="<{$xoops_meta_rating}>" />
<meta name="author" content="<{$xoops_meta_author}>" />
<meta name="copyright" content="<{$xoops_meta_copyright}>" />
<meta name="generator" content="XOOPS" />
<title><{$xoops_sitename}> - <{$xoops_pagetitle}></title>
<link href="<{$xoops_url}>/favicon.ico" rel="SHORTCUT ICON" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<{$xoops_url}>/xoops.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<{$xoops_themecss}>" />
<!-- RMV: added module header -->
<{$xoops_module_header}>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
<{$xoops_js}>
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table cellspacing="0">
<tr id="header">
<td id="headerlogo"><a href="<{$xoops_url}>/"><img src="<{$xoops_imageurl}>logo.gif" width="150" height="80" alt="" /></a></td>
<td id="headerbanner"><{$xoops_banner}></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="headerbar" colspan="2"> </td>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td id="leftcolumn">
<!-- Start left blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_lblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockleft.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End left blocks loop -->
</td>
<td id="centercolumn">
<!-- Display center blocks if any -->
<{if $xoops_showcblock == 1}>
<table cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td id="centerCcolumn" colspan="2">
<!-- Start center-center blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_ccblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_c.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End center-center blocks loop -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="centerLcolumn">
<!-- Start center-left blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_clblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_l.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End center-left blocks loop -->
</td>
<td id="centerRcolumn">
<!-- Start center-right blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_crblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_r.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End center-right blocks loop -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<{/if}>
<!-- End display center blocks -->
<div id="content">
<{$xoops_contents}>
</div>
<{if $xoBlocks.page_bottomleft or $xoBlocks.page_bottomright or $xoBlocks.page_bottomcenter}>
<table cellspacing="0">
<{if $xoBlocks.page_bottomcenter}>
<tr><td id="bottomCcolumn" colspan="2">
<{foreach from=$xoBlocks.page_bottomcenter item=block}><{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_c.html"}><{/foreach}>
</td>
</tr>
<{/if}>
<{if $xoBlocks.page_bottomleft or $xoBlocks.page_bottomright}>
<tr>
<td id="bottomLcolumn">
<{foreach from=$xoBlocks.page_bottomleft item=block}><{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_l.html"}><{/foreach}>
</td>
<td id="bottomRcolumn">
<{foreach from=$xoBlocks.page_bottomright item=block}><{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_r.html"}><{/foreach}>
</td>
</tr>
<{/if}>
</table>
<{/if}>
</td>
<{if $xoops_showrblock == 1}>
<td id="rightcolumn">
<!-- Start right blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_rblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockright.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End right blocks loop -->
</td>
<{/if}>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellspacing="0">
<tr id="footerbar">
<td><a href="http://www XOOPS org/" target="_blank"><img src="<{$xoops_imageurl}>poweredby.gif" alt="" /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
