I have the problem reduced to a simple .html file and a .css style sheet that goes 
with it if someone want to take a crack at it... :-)

At 08:14 PM 5/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Changing to "...-color:" in the FORM .css file statement effects no-change..... it 
>still renders the color and causes the text to not display... unless I drag the 
>scroll bar causing the browser to re-paint  the scrolled area of the  page. Then the 
>text becomes visible.
>
>
>I don't want the entire page background to be  #669999 in color so I have not used 
>that approach..
>
>It's maddening at the  moment!  Pulling the color statement out leaves the Form 
>white... 
>
>
>At 10:01 PM 5/30/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>2 suggestions
>>1 - move it into the body tag
>>body {
>>background-color: #669999;
>>}
>>
>>2 - background-color: #669999;
>>
>>one of those should do it - I recommend #1
>>jay miller
>>
>>Brian Scandale wrote:
>>
>>> Just installed on a site that is exclusively IE 6.0 and suddenly some very simple 
>text is not displaying...
>>>
>>> So I hit it with IE 5.5 and all is OK.
>>>
>>> Next I pulled the View/Source output apart and everything looks OK.
>>>
>>> Discovered that if I pull the background statement,(SeeBelow) out of the .css file 
>then it displays properly... but that's a bummer because that ruins the esthetics of 
>the page.
>>>
>>> Is there something wrong with my .css statement that anyone can tell?
>>>
>>> FORM {  font-size : 11px;
>>>         background : #669999;  <---theBadActor
>>>         border : thin outset;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Thanks for Looking at this.
>>>
>>> ~Brian
>>>
>>> 
>>
>
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