Autopopulate date and add color formula

New to this thread, but I am looking for major help, I will try to be as descriptive as possible.
What I am looking to do is have a cell autopopulate a given date, based off the date in a previous cell. I want to add 1 year to the date. What I am also looking to be done, is that if the autopopulated date is within the present month, ie. December, the cell will show up as the color Red. If the autopopulated date is 1 months ahead of the present month, I want that cell the show up as Blue. If the autopopulated date is 2 months ahead of the present month, I want that cell the show up as Yellow. My best attempts at this so far have been the following:
if cell A1 is 12/01/2010, have B1 as =DATE(YEAR(A1)+1,MONTH(A1),DAY(A1)).
now this will get me to autopopulat the correct date that am looking for. But i have not been able to figure out how to color the cell based off the month.
I do not know how to make the computer understand what today's date is and then generate a color.
This is what i am looking to do:
A1B1
12/01/201012/01/2011
01/01/201101/01/2011
02/01/201102/01/2011

any help on this would be much appreciated.

Are you looking to match the MONTH only... .or do you really mean if the date is the current month and year, etc?

Try this:

Assuming the dates are in B1:B3

Select B1:B3 and go to Home|Conditional Formatting|Manage Rules.

Click New Rule and choose use a formula to determine which cells to format from top section, then enter formula

=EOMONTH(B1,0)=EOMONTH(TODAY(),0)

click Format and choose Red from Font tab.

Then click Ok, click New Rule and repeat with formula:

=EOMONTH(B1,0)=EOMONTH(TODAY(),1)

choosing blue from the Font tab

Then repeat once more with

=EOMONTH(B1,0)=EOMONTH(TODAY(),2)

and yellow font