Putting cf variables in non cf files...

I had asked a similar question before, but this one is a bit different (and that one wasn't really answered completely anyway). What I am trying to do is to read in a file that has cf variables in it (like '#VarName#'), and output it in the http response stream.
Basically, I am trying to create a themeable interface for my site. So, in my CSS files, for things like colors and backgrounds, I want to place something where I can swap out that placeholder for a value. This modified CSS content would be the only thing written to the stream, and altering the "content-type" header, it would be handled like a css file by the browser.
I though that if I used #'s to delimit variables, read the file, set the variables, and then use CFOUTPUT, I could do this. Well, I guess I was wrong. No errors were being thrown, and I was just getting the '#VarName#' directly in the output.
Then, I though about using a CFINCLUDE, and I used it in inline code, within a CFOUTPUT, and also a CFSAVECONTENT, but I was still just getting '#VarName#' in the output.
If possible, I want to stay away from having to do a global string replacement, but if that is the only way...
Does anyone have a way in which to do the task at hand? I'll keep playing with it, and if I find something, I will let you all know...

Basically, I am trying to create a themeable interface for my site. So, in my CSS files, for things like colors and backgrounds, I want to place something where I can swap out that placeholder for a value. This modified CSS content would be the only thing written to the stream, and altering the "content-type" header, it would be handled like a css file by the browser.
I though that if I used #'s to delimit variables, read the file, set the variables, and then use CFOUTPUT, I could do this. Well, I guess I was wrong. No errors were being thrown, and I was just getting the '#VarName#' directly in the output.
The web server, by default, does not pass requests for CSS files to CF, so CF will never find out about said request, so none of the CFML in the CSS file will get processed by CF. You can tell the webserver to pass requests for CSS files to CF, but then CF will need to process all requests for CSS files. Not ideal.
You could rename your dynamic CSS files to have .CFM extensions, but then your browser won't consider them cachable, so you will lose a lot of the benefit of using CSS files: that the browser caches them, therefore lowering the overhead of making a request. I am fairly certain using a combination of headers and HTTP codes one could get get the browser to cache the file, though. But then you have the reverse problem: you lose the dynamicism of the CF-driven CSS file.
To be honest... I'd just have a bunch of themed CSS files and be done with it. I don't imagine you will have so many combinations of themes that this becomes impractical? Then CF handles the variable which identifies which CSS file to call in, given the current theme.
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