Editing text in a scrolling DIV?

i have a site made up of DIV text boxes, with their OVERFLOW
set to SCROLL. the text is black on a light blue background, but
the page has a very dark brown background.
when i go to edit the page in Contribute, i can edit the text
in the box, but the text that overflows spills down over top of the
dark background, making it impossible to read/edit/scroll down to.
does anyone have any ideas how i can edit ALL of the text in that
DIV?
the site in question is
www.alexnussbaum.com

thanks for the response. i could cut and paste, as the
designer, but i'm concerned about my clients, who are just
Contribute users. that's the whole idea of Contribute, you know? to
make this stuff easy for them. it's too bad Contribute doesn't keep
the scrolling of the DIV intact to make editing easier...
and i tried the Design Time style sheets, but it doesn't
quite work. in DW it works no problem, then the first time you use
Contribute to create a page from a template, it works, but it's
when you try to go back for a second time to edit the page is when
things start to not function properly. the DTSS is not recognized,
and the editable area appears to be uneditable. hypotetically it
works, but not in practice...

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