...you only made one call to colorAllocate, though; wouldn't that set the background color to the font color and give you just a blue square? (At least that's what it did for me...)

Anyways, think I found my problem -- apparently, it's a WinNT/Win9x incompatability thing, because I migrated my code over to the server and it works fine. *sighs*

Thanks for the help, though. =)