answer dialog background color problems

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If anyone can offer some advice to fix this, I would be very grateful...

I am creating a Windows standalone (developing on XP), and every time I
build the distribution with the box  "Copy default colors" NOT checked, the
background of (some of) my answer dialog boxes is black, not the grey I have
set for the respective parent object that is calling the dialog... I'm very
confused... I've tried everything I can think of, and am at a loss of
ideas...

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much for your help


George