Hi Jon,
That green is both a background color and a background picture. The color is #43a740. The picture is http://ti2.auctiva.com/tia/12271/stockcar_bg3.gif.
I removed both and replaced the background with white FFFFFF. Here's the template at practicewriter.
http://practicewriter.com/vu/?5716A
Because the text color was white on green, I flipped the text colors to black #000000.
Danno