[AccessD] Weird form color problem

Folks,

We have an application that has been installed on several hundred computers.
We were recently visiting a client and helped to put the application on her
laptop.  When opened the forms in the app. were not in the color that was
set at design time and the text boxes that have their background set to
transparent, and borders invisible were back to white background and normal
borders.  This is an mde file.  When we designed the app we set all forms
and controls to non windows colors so that if the user sets their windows
preferences to some non-standard color set it does not impact our
application.  The monitor on the computer displays all colors and pictures
correctly.  The only thing I can think of that might cause this behavior is
that some windows or Office file has been corrupted.

Have any of you seen this type of behavior and if so do you know what the
cause is?

The laptop was a year old Dell with Windows XP Home.

Thanks in advance.

Doug