>FYI - I deleted and readded the boxes, still the same problem. Seems my greying of textboxes was becuase they were ontop of a shape. I used a rectangle to group fields. Tried copying the textboxes to a container (just want the border of the container), but the grey came back. Even after I deleted the container the grey stayed. Had to readd the textboxes then use lines to group the fields. This solved my problem.

Maybe you've hit on where the gray came from -- my gray boxes were on a gray page. My situation was simpler, I guess that's why the simpler fix worked.

BTW, was yours a converted app? I haven't seen any problems in "newly minted" objects in 6...