Can't set a component's color!???

Hi,
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here:
Scrollbar sb = new Scrollbar(Scrollbar.VERTICAL, 0, 1, 0, 255);
this.add(sb);
sb.setBounds(20, 20, 15, 200);
sb.setForeground(Color.BLACK);
sb.setBackground(Color.WHITE);Ok, well that looks perfectly sensible to me, however the scrollbar doesn't diplay with a balck foreground and a white background - it seems to just completely ignore those two lines of code! What on earth is going on? The documentation (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Component.html#setForeground(java.awt.Color)) just says " Sets the foreground color of this component". Well, yeah, I figured that it might just do that, but it doesn't seem to!
TIA,
Mike.

Judging by the extent of the documentation, the designers don't say anything about what they consider "foreground" to be! I assumed it was the two little arrow bits and the twiddly bit in the middle of the scrollbar, with the background being everything else in the scrollbar. Perhaps it isn't so.
Phrased another way, my question is, "how do I change the color of the arrows and twiddly bit in the scrollbar, and how do I change the color of the rest of the scrollbar?". I am not fond of the drab grey ...
Thanks,
Mike.

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