HOWTO: Grub Customizer

[drs305]

Now I am really confused. I went ahead and manually changed the debian_theme as you described, updated grub, and rebooted. I got the same Black screen with the white font and light gray highlight.

This shouldn't be this difficult. Please help !

If you download and run the boot info script from the following location and attach the RESULTS.txt and your /etc/default/grub contents I can take a look.
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net

Added: I just loaded up Lucid in a VM and GC worked as expected. By looking at your scripts we may be able to find out what is different on your machine.