Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

>The colors are loaded from the Windows and used if they're not overridden. I guess you have different color settings on different PCs/logins.
>
>>Thanks for the information. Do you have any insight as to why the same code would generate such different results?
>>
>>>The color pairs for the list

Color Pair 	
>>>Number	List Attribute
>>>1	Disabled option
>>>2	Enabled option
>>>3	Border and scroll bar*
>>>5	Message
>>>6	Selected list item
>>>9	Enabled list
>>>10	Disabled list
>>>*Controls drawn in background color. Bar drawn in dim of foreground color.
>>>

I guess you would want to change the 6th one. Something like

...
>>>COLOR RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255),RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255),,,,RGB(0,0,0,0,0,160)

>>>
>>>