Colour Loss

I've been having a bit of trouble with colours in fireworks.
I'm not exporting or anything, but the colours in my documents keep
changing.
For example: I'll draw something using #333333, but when I
open the file again the colour will have changed to #383838. Even
worse, sometimes a single colour will have split into several
different shades.
I'm a pixel artist, so this is a big problem for me. Any
suggestions?

In your 'Optimize' panel what do you have your colour set to?
Peter
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| I've been having a bit of trouble with colours in
fireworks. I'm not
exporting
| or anything, but the colours in my documents keep changing.
|
| For example: I'll draw something using #333333, but when I
open the file
again
| the colour will have changed to #383838. Even worse,
sometimes a single
colour
| will have split into several different shades.
|
| I'm a pixel artist, so this is a big problem for me. Any
suggestions?
|

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