Hi Larry,

The "weird graphics" may be more "realistic". In the daytime, the
entire sky should be blue. At night, it should gradually darken. When
the moon is on the screen, you should see lighter blue sky near the
moon, darkening elsewhere. Right now, near full moon, most of the
sky will be at least partly bright for most of the night. Does that
actually match what you're seeing?

The crash is 'flashlight' mode is more worrisome. In both 'red stars'
and 'flashlight' mode, Guide not only changes its own colors, but
everyone else's as well. In 'red stars' mode, the screen is supposed
to be mostly black with text and lines and such in red (*). In 'flashlight'
mode, it's the opposite, so that the screen is just bright enough to
be used as a red flashlight.

For this to work, it's really not enough for Guide just to set its
own colors. You'd then have everything else on the screen blazing
brightly and ruining your night vision. So Guide uses a system call
to reset "standard" Windows colors. Apparently, something on your
system objects to this (mine seems fine with it). What flavor of
Windows are you running?

I'll try it here with various forks (XP, Vista, Win7) and
perhaps with Ubuntu/Wine and see what I get.

Thanks! -- Bill