Changing error message color - variable vs item

[iMarks]

For most pages, it appears that we cannot control the error message color using CSS - it usually shows up in bright red. The item:

<mvt:item name="messages" />

is rendering a <font color="red"> tag which I cannot figure out how to override.

However on the POUT page I found a different reference to error messages:

&mvte:global:Error_Messages;

(1) Does this variable render the same text as the messages item?
(2) Can I use these interchangeably on any page?
(3) Can I override the color in the variable?

Thanks for any help...

[iMarks]

Re: Changing error message color - variable vs item

I just substituted the Error Messages variable for the messages item on ACAD and it didn't work, so it looks like they are different.