> > Look in the Universal Access preferences pane. There's a "Switch to White > > on Black" option that may have been inadvertently triggered -- you can > > change it back to "Black on White". > > THREE prompt and correct answers! I stumbled upon it myself playing with the > menu options in System Preferences. I suspect that my son and his friend > were having keyboard wars and inadvertently toggled this option. CloseView was my nemesis for similar sorts of bizarre things after keyboard banging in classic MacOS :-) -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- If G. B. Shaw were a surrealist, he'd be writing plays about ghoti. --------