Jchills,
If you're using a browser to look at the forum, you've a couple of choices:
1. Click on the <Reply> button. That will take you to the New Reply page and it should contain something that looks like:
Code:
[quote] blah, blah, blah [/quote]
Edit the stuff between the "quote" and "/quote" boxes but don't change or delete the square brackets. That should leave the nice white box and also provide a link to the post you quoted.
2. Click on the button that looks something like ""+. You will then see something like, "You have selected one or more posts to quote. Quote these posts now or deselect them" appears under the quick reply box. If you click on the red bit that says "Quote these posts now" the same thing should happen except that the quoted text appears. Follow the instructions above.
If all that's as clear as mud, I'm happy to try again.
Cheers