OK that's was the problem. If you choose the enhanced version, you can no longer see the wallpaper that people choose for just the message board on their profile pages. The message board uses the same wallpaper as the surrounding area, and in some cases would make it difficult to type on.
Picture one is how my profile, page message box looks to anyone that has "enhanced" editing. Picture 2 shows how my page would look to someone with either the basic or the standard editing.
I love looking at people's profile pages, so standard editing is probably best for me, but I can see where the enhanced would be useful in certain situations were you want to paste in a message and keep things typed as they originally were typed, with the same formatting, and this enhanced feature allows you to do that. Also, you can do some wild type of font.