Thoughts on getting rid of chat bubbles

[Imadruid]

I'm not a graphics expert, so I thought I'd see what you guys thought. I noticed that there are pieces in the DDS files that look like they make up the chat bubbles. Do you think there is any kind of magic we can perform by modifying these images. I'd like to make the images for the chat bubbles see through. This would allow us to get rid of chat bubbles without really getting rid of them. I relalize I miight have to make some font changes as well.