ljugan

Thank you so much for your help! Each of those solutions worked great.

For #3, I searched using your suggestion of text-shadow and found this which did exactly what I was looking for:

p {
    color: #fff;
    text-shadow: 1px 0 0 #000, 0 -1px 0 #000, 0 1px 0 #000, -1px 0 0 #000;
}

Thanks again!!