My CSS Mission

[MarcLister]

Don't know if many of you frequent SI Games' (of Football Manager fame) forum but I'm fed up with the main page. SI recently upgraded their forums to use the same vBulletin forum base as BD. With SIF (my little abbreviation for SI Forums ) I can minimise some of the some forums I don't wish to see, to try and save some screen space.

Now this is OK when I don't want any of the options from a particular sub-forum, such as the Football Manager Live (online version of FM) or the Football Manager local language forums. Then there is the NHL Eastside Hockey Manager. Each of these sub-forums can be "hidden" by clicking/pressing the arrow on the right of each sub-forum's title bar.

But my problem is the sub-forums I am interested with, that have lots of links I don't want to see but I can't hide them because I'd not be able to see the links I do need. The main Football Manager forums section is the perfect example of this, I want to be able to see the PC/Mac General Discussion but not the Xbox360, Handheld equivalents or the Translation forum. With their old forum each item I wanted to hide had an unique ID so I could just knock up a CSS file on my PC and hide each item I wanted rid of. But with vBulletin nothing appears to have an ID, just a class. So by hiding a class I'd hide everything. Not what I want.

What I do want is to have a CSS file that somehow hides specific sub-forums for me to clean up the appearance of the forum. I know I could just bookmark each forum I want and use a shortcut to easily reach them but (A) where's the fun in that? and (B) I'd like to just bookmark the main page and then visit the forums I'm interested by looking at the latest posts in each, something I can't do if I just go into each forum looking for new posts.

Something tells me I'd need to tell Opera to block the entire CSS rules that the SI Forums uses and create my own to completely overwrite it? So I'd have to re-use the CSS that styles the links etc but then add my own CSS rules to hide the forums I don't want? I can't see how I can get the SI Forums CSS to work in a sort of partnership with mine.

Can anyone give me any advice on this? Like is it possible or should I find an easier or more physically possible project?