1. Most of modules have transparent color, bcg is from containers, and you can control that using template parameters or if you use pre-defined style you can edit /styles/styleX.php where X is number of your style.
2. Module suffix is added to module class like this:
<div class="moduletablesuffix"...
you can do this trick with it:
example: suffix=" red round"
then you can style module like this:
DIV.red{
....
}
DIV.round{
....
}