Fonts show up in the wrong colours sometimes

First off, I might have posted this in the wrong category. If that is so, I apologize; I'm new - this is in fact my first post. My problem doesn't seem to fit well in any of the categories in Boot Camp.
I have the following entertaining problem: the font colors are screwy sometimes in Windows. After some experimentation, it seems that Windows is swapping the R and B in the RGB value when displaying anti-aliased text. Red text shows up as blue, blue text shows up as red, yellow ends up a very light blue, and what WordPad calls "Olive" turns blue-green, and so on. I've searched for days, but can't seem to find an answer.
This is on a 2.8Ghz Mac Pro with a 24" Cinema Display and an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT running Windows XP SP2. I also have a 2Ghz Mac Pro connected to two small CRT screens, it has a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT. It does not have this problem. Both computers have the same version of Windows and the same version of the Boot Camp drivers, installed off my Leopard install DVD. I haven't tried swapping the screens as that would be very inconvenient in my situation.
It's had this problem since I installed Windows on it. On Mac OS X, there's no problems, when booting my Boot Camp partition in VMWare it doesn't happen either.
Does anyone know what's going on?

Found an answer to my problem at least. Hopefully this will be of some assistance to others in a similar situation.
Since my computer was using the ATI Radeon 2600 I poked around a bit and found a bootcamp specific driver for the card.
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/mac/bootcamp-xp.html
I first ran the Leopard window's driver install (repair mode) to see if that would do the trick. That did not. Then I ran the bootcamp specific drivers from amd. This seems to have straightened out the blue to red and red to blue problem.

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