Coloring Help?

First of all I am not very happy with Adobe right now. I think they might be competing with Apple for whose products can drive me crazier and then have their customer support give me the least support.
This forum was ridiculously difficult to figure out how to post in once the whole live chat thing kept telling me to bug off because it didn't want to talk to me.
Not very happy at all. (And on top of that it tells me my username is already taken, I have no idea who in the world would be using it other than me, which leads me to believe I'm somehow registered twice or something....)
Anyway though, I've got Photoshop Elements 8 and all of a sudden it decided that when I use the brush tool, if I go back and draw over something I already colored, it changed the part I already colored to a lighter color. I doesn't seem to do this for pure black or white though.
How do I get it back so that everything is just the same color?

Yeah, it's just the regular brush tool.
That's what it looks like. The red arrow is pointing to the original line, the blue area is the secon line that I colored over it with. Where they meet, it turns light.

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Color help please!
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So that you can be better helped,what OS/version are you running,what software/hardware do you calibrate your monitor with,and what are the Color Preference settings in Photoshop? That can be accessed with Ctrl + Shift + k in Photoshop. If you can manage a screenshot of just that Preference dialog,it will help a lot.
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You could set Photoshop's Working space to sRGB (North American General Defaults 2) if your pictures are intended for the web, or if you must use Adobe RGB (commercial press work),then you must tag or Assign an sRGB profile if your file has no profile assigned. If it already has a tag other than sRGB, then you make a copy and Convert it to sRGB to display properly in Windows apps.
That's a rough guess as to why your files do not display properly in CS5. Assign Profile and Convert to Profile are both under PS's Edit Menu.
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Michael,
Thanks for your reply as well. This solution works and works simply. I do believe I just change all instances of JProgress to now show the same custom colors. Which is ok by me.
The key phrase in this solution is the phrase "prior to construction". I simply set it in a static init block and went from there. You might be able to do something right prior to creating a new instance to keep this effecting only one instance. I have not tried.
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When I set the "blades" image to screen, the blade color ends up blending into the background color (altering the blades color) and ends up completely disappearing against a white background.
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