The <pre> tags look fine here (black text on white), so I suspect it's your browser cache can you try clearing your cache?
About the code boxes: maybe. Chances are that it will break at the wrong places or that it can't properly break words, with all these weird BASIC oneliners 
. Not to mention that WIDTH80 might not fit on a newspost comment...
Hmm... I think you are right... I'm now on another computer and the <pre> tags look fine...
About the code boxes: I'm afraid that you are correct... BASIC & BrainFuck stuff tends to look always bad then viewed on web-pages... I think that if this would be easy to fix it would have been done more often... I just thought that it newer hurts to ask as I know very little about the www tech stuf..
I think you already understand my problem very well, but just in case...
It would be just great if the sources would look like this:
Instead of this:
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2 P(Y\4)=50-15*(Y\12AND1):NEXTY,X:N=14336:FORI=0TO383:VPOKEN+I,VPEEK((IAND7)+(IAND8)*V+(IAND48)\2+(IAND448)*8):NEXT:S$="3##B#C#c$B'r$B&s3#%##C#3%S';%S&s;##2#3#B#R#B#<=c'##c'#@C#)#2#,s##&wfw:w3w4w$w3w#w4w,DD0CDDDS0CDSDK0CDKDC0CDC":SOUND3,14
3 SCREEN1:FORO=0TO53:Y=0:FORM=MTOM+1:Y=Y*96+ASC(MID$(S$,M))-35:NEXT:FORK=KTOK+Y\256:VPOKEK+N+I+8335*(O>V),YANDU:NEXTK,O:FORI=UTO1023:O=VPEEK(I):VPOKEI,(OORO\2)\(2-(IAND4)\4):NEXT:FORI=ITO1279:O=IANDV:VPOKE6432+(IAND63),228+8*(IAND3)-O'dvik
4 W=2^(IAND7):J=O*U\W\64:VPOKEI+512,JAND-W:VPOKEI+768,JOR-WANDU:J=8-O\8:VPOKEI,(JANDI)*U\J:NEXT:R=N\2:VPOKE8192,14:VPOKE1209,U:PLAY"v15o5arararo6aa":FORW=9TO10:PUTSPRITEW,(16+64*W,159),14,W-3:SOUNDW,14:N=N+9:NEXT:TIME=0:SOUND5,83:FORT=2TOR
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7 PUTSPRITE1,(115-(D<34)*((24-D)*B+F*10)+(E-64)*D\225,-Y*(98+D)-31),6,15-D\25-(T>R)*9:M=(X>72)-(X<0):E=NAND128:N=N+9-S:S=S*((X-15-E\3)\15<>0ORD<73)*(M=0):SOUND4,U-S*9(:X=X+5*(M-(0=(OAND128))+(0=(OAND16)))-S*B\4:FORW=0TO0:W=PLAY(0):NEXTW,T
8 S=15:Z$=SPACE$(S)+"Race Over Time ="+STR$((TIME\(6-PEEK(43)\128))/10)+"s":FORN=0TOU:D=88-3*N:LOCATE6,4:PUTSPRITE0,(116-(36-X)*D\126,(68+D)-(D<0)*128),1,S-D\24:+:PRINTMID$(Z$+Z$,NMOD38+1,S):SOUND(1ANDN)+9,-(D>0)*D\6:NEXT:SCREEN0:CLEAR
<-- See that_ ?
some random points for crew & co:
- Please get rid of the left sidebar in newsposts, this allows text/reactions to become wider. "related news" can move to the right bar, and "news topics" and "archives" are useless to have in a sidebar: they can be accessible via the site main menu. ("news topics" isn't there yet, it seems, but should be trivial to add)
- On the frontpage, "spotlight" and "photoshoots" blocks are not as important as they suggest the viewer to be. Their height can be reduced to nearly a half of what it is now, making the other 4 blocks completely visible without having to scroll down.
- The width of the left bar on the forum/reactions can be reduced a bit, I suppose, leaving more room for text. Shorten long titles like "Ambassador". Of posting time, limit the year to 2 digits and maybe make the font smaller.
- Add "trading & collecting" forum link to mainmenu->forum. It's one of your busiest subforums after all.
- You have waaaay to many subforums for this day and age of the internet. Merge some!
- (i had to log out to doublecheck this 
).. at the upper part of the right sidebar "Become a member", the register button/link is glitched. Using firefox here.