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I voted for option 1; it appeals to me more. Besides, in the second option, you get a bird against a white square, which doesn't look very good. Although, if you make that square transparent, it could look quite nice. But still, option 1 is much more appealing and I'm already used to it. I don't see much point in changing anything! The database is working, and now everyone can see everything, which is great!
By the way, yesterday I was experimenting with styles (and honestly, I got tired of it) and I came to a conclusion! Personally, everything works fine for me in Opera and IE (I can't check Mozilla). The only thing I noticed is that when using the Dvarves 1 skin, the comments indicator is displayed terribly: pale blue and white text on a white background – it's completely unreadable! I don't know if anyone uses this skin, but with this, it's definitely unusable, even though the black color of the skin itself looks quite stylish! This is probably the only drawback.