Captivate 4 in Vista - weird graphic shading

Hi all,
My colleague and I have been capturing screenshots in Vista - in her case directly on a Vista machine, in my case using a Vista machine to remote to a client's site and capture their screens.
We've both had the same thing happen - dialog boxes have blocks of lighter colors appear in the preview that aren't there in the actual graphic.
I've edited them in a graphics editor (Photo Shop), flattening them and saving them, then re-importing them to Captivate. Different saved formats give different results - the only one that seems to work to eliminate the blocks entirely is jpg.
Are there any graphics experts here who know what's going on here - and most importantly, if there is a way to prevent it in the preferences or template?

Hi there
I've been doing a lot of work in Vista lately myself. I'm finding that one of the big factors in what I get is related to the Color Scheme you are using. For example, when I use Aero, things are pretty spot on. But things go missing if I switch to a more basic color scheme as Vista constantly nags me to do. I get a silly dialog telling me that the color scheme is likely to impair my performance of Vista. I did try using a basic color scheme as it recommends, but I had issues after making the change.
As with anything like this, it's mostly trial and error and your mileage is likely to vary.
Cheers... Rick
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:12:06 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Any possible issues using Captivate 4 on Vista 64-bit OS?
I have the same problem on 64-bit Vista - the audio editor will not even open. Is there a solution to this?
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