i just have a few basic questions i have been searching to the answer for but havent got very far.
1. how do u change the background in blackbox
2.how do u change/install blackbox themes
3. how do i edit the right-click menu to add programs to it
any help will be appreciated

This should get you started;
http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/BlackboxDocumentation

comprookie, the reason i am switching to blackbox is because i have had troubles with fluxbox, i read their faq and man pages and i couldnt get every theme i downloaded from freshmeat to work, also it was having transparency issues i.e. i couldnt display aterm transparency. also how do u set a background as default?

I use Esetroot it comes with eterm,I don't like eterm I use aterm but I have never had any problems with Esetroot;
also you can use -scale
once you get what you want you can add it to your .xinitrc if you use startx or to the style or theme you are using.
Some of the themes you may need to edit to include the fonts that you have installed.You can use xfontsel to see which ones are installed.What distro are you using and what version of fluxbox did you have problems with.Blackbox is good but I am just used to fluxbox.

i am using gentoo. genkernel 2.6. i just emerged fluxbox from a terminal. how do u install a new theme in fluxbox?

Set up your /home/yourname/.fluxbox/init so your menu is being read,like this;
restart fluxbox,you don't need to exit x just restart
next download a style,just happen to have some here;
http://www.abbottdavid.com/styles/
untar it and put it in /home/yourname/.fluxbox/styles
some will go there on there own and some need to be moved
there will be inside the style some pixmaps and the theme.cfg
let me know if you need anything else here is some more;
http://abbottdavid.no-ip.info/fluxbox/index.html and
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Fluxbox
and this will get your fonts to look good
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
You will be busy

To install those good looking artwiz fonts you will need to create the file as root;
/etc/portage/package.kewords and add this to it;<--should be keywords
media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en ~x86 then
then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add them,here is mine
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
#

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/"
Now you will have to restart X

how do i make a background default and fullscreen?

-scale add it to .xinitrc or if you start fluxbox with startfluxbox add it to
/home/yourname/.fluxbox/startup
Did you do your reading?
download this one save it in your home dir;
http://www.abbottdavid.com/screenshots/prettyocean.jpg
and set it with;
Esetroot -scale prettyocean.jpg
what happens?

btw i added that line to /etc/portage/package.keywords and it still says artwiz-aleczapka-en package masked when i emerge artwiz-aleczapka-en

I typed it wrong should be /etc/portage/package.keywords

ok i think there's something wrong with my fluxbox because it wont let me set backgrounds etc. i want to just delete it and emerge it again how do i do that?

PS. your running gentoo right? how did u get ur sound to work? i follow the alsa tutorial on the gentoo site and it still didnt work.

yah i put in keywords cause thats wut i figured u meant.. still didnt work

Put the whole filename in package.keyworks
emerge search artwiz-aleczapka-en to see what it is and make sure you have the ~x86 at the end
emerge -C fluxbox

what kind of sound card?

VIA technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/7237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)