And yes - the reason you chat looks white is that it needs some CSS for your skin. I believe Douglas has an update for NingJa coming soon that will get you those CSS classes.
Thanks Gary. I'm not seeing any issues with comments in the timeline here - can you let me know what module that is supposed to be there (if you know?).
As for the comments, comments are always located on the item detail page - so if you are on the timeline, the way to view the comments for that item is to go to it's page. Let me know if that is what you mean.
Your image didn't come through - can you repost it? Right now the colors may not be correct in custom skins - there are some CSS classes for chat that have been added to the existing skins - we'll be doing some releases of those as soon as we can. If you've customized you'll need to bring in the next classes to your custom CSS.
Yes - I'm working on a fix for this currently - it is a bug in the new Timeline "hash tag parser". Hoping to a new version of it out shortly that fixes this up.