"Kevin Oberman" <oberman(a)es.net> writes:
color on my screen when XEmacs starts (something that was not the
case
at one time), but it switches to grey75 (or something close) as soon
as I change the selected font using the Options->Font menu.
I am afraid the behaviour you describe is currently designed in. The
Font menu uses custom now. Custom (unfortunately) cannot ADD to
settings. Either you do all your settings using X resources/elisp or
you have do to all your settings using customize.
The solution your case would be to either
1. Not use the font menu, do it all by hand.
2. Specify the color using customize-face on 'default.
Jan