Hate is too strong of a word. I am not happy with the colors on my newest site. The white in the main content area is the only thing I like.

Everything is CSS driven so changing is no big deal. I made the header and can change that also.

What colors would you choose for a site of this nature? Please be specific with the color codes in the form of #------.

Maybe you could make the tan on your site a little darker, or maybe emboss it?

If you coded the way it is right now it would still be good!!

I cannot give you many ideas what to use, but try to play with this tool: http://kuler.adobe.com/

And look through the palette galleries. I have found inspiration numerous times there.