Let's see if I can give this a go at instructions for the name bar for everyone using PSE. Please note I am using PSE4.0 on a Windows machine.
1) Open your background pic. Generally a pic wit characters close together works pretty well.
2) Type the words/name you want on the background pic. Try and pic a thick heavy set font that will show lots of the pics. I tend to use Impact or Harvest. Remember the thickness of the font will let you know how much of the picture will show through. Resize the text so that it fills as much of the pic as you would like.
3) Open a new blank layer
4)
In the layers palette, <ctrl> click the image in the layer of the text. You should see a hand with a "marquee" box appear when you press the <ctrl> button and the mouse is on the image (or icon). When you click it, the text should now be hilighted like a selection.
4 a) If you want to view what it will look like, turn off viewing the text layer. The hilighted portion should still show through giving you a basic idea of what of the pic will eventually come through the text.
5) click on the background pic in the layer palette so that you are working there. The words/name should still be "marquee" style.
6) Here's where you can go in different directions. I now click <edit> <copy>. I then switch to the blank layer I created and click <edit> <paste>. I now turn off the background pic. You no longer need the background layer at all.
Time to put hilighting around the words that you have in the previously blank layer.
7) You can turn off the viewing of the text layer at this point, but do not delete it. Make sure you are working with the layer that was originally blank but should now be showing your background pic in the letters.
8) On the text image icon in the layers palette, once again do a <ctrl> Click so you get the marquee around the letters once again.
9) Go to Edit --> Stroke (Outline) Selection. A new dialogue box should pop up asking you for the stroke width and colour. Put in your desired width and colour (I tend to use 2 or 3 px at this stage). For LOCATION select OUTSIDE. Under BLENDING the mode should be NORMAL. And I leave it at 100% opacity. Click ok.
10) Your text should now be hilighted with the colour you chose.
Now to do the glowing background.
11) Now your Text layer should become needless, but you can leave it or stick with it, either way it doesn't matter. I like to leave it incase I mess something up.
12) With the background/words layer (usually labelled Layer 1 unless you called it something else), make sure it is selected again in the layers palette so you are working with that layer.
13) Back to our handy dandy <ctrl> Click feature again. But this time click on the image (icon) in the layers palette that you are working on - namely the words with the background pic.
14) This should move the "marquee" to around the outline you just did in the previous section.
15) Now back to Edit-->Stroke (Outline) Selection and get the dialogue box to pop up again.
16) change your width to something larger 10-20 px or whatever you want and select your colour.
17) Make sure you have picked the OUTSIDE location again
18) For blending you can pick Normal or even Behind. I haven't noticed a difference and both work for me. Feel free to play with whichever blending mode you want, you can always click undo and try a different one VERY easily. I tend to use Behind.
19) Opacity can now be changed if you want to lighten the "glow". I tend to use about 75 or 80%.
20) You should be all done. SAVE your work to whatever format you want.
Congrats you did it.
(or at least I hope these instructions helped)!!
Hope it goes well and things start looking up!!!
another one for this and I'll keep you all in prayers today. Please let Daniel know that we are thinking about him also. 
