vertical color bars appearing in menus

Running FC4 with KDE 3.4.2 This machine is an upgrade from FC3. In many menus, small, translucent vertical colored bars appear over individual letters that are underlined in menus, It first appeared everywhere after the upgrade, including in Kmenu and most programs and even the login screen. Since then, they've disappeared from most of the above, but they still linger in some programs and on the login screen. Unfortunately, I have no idea what changed. For a screen grab, you can look here: http://www.levitjames.com/kdecolorbars.html I logged into Gnome yesterday, and the problem persisted in a couple of programs (Kyum is one for example). I've tried all the items in the desktop configuration, changing styles, widgets, etc. I looked at the xorg conf file for anything obvious. I've posted this over at KDE-Redhat but no one there is getting it, save one individual who got rid of it by playing with his widget settings. Anyone else getting this? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA