I know it's not CSS based. It's somewhere in the code and us PHP virgins are having hard time to track and change it.

I would like to know about this as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anyone?

You can change the way most plug-ins display in the dropdown menu by navigating to the langauages folder within the plugin (.../mod/vanillaforum/languages) and modify the en.php.

There are also many many more things you can do with the base en.php that would help you customize your site.

You are awesome. Thank you very much, it works like a charm!