Leopard Terminal - No ANSI Colors at all?

I've done a lot of searching on Terminal colors in Leopard (updated to latest.) I keep coming across fixes to change your colors, but my issue is that my Terminal doesn't display any ANSI colors at all. The terminal configuration works fine, but colors for everything (folders, executables, etc.) are always the same.
I've tried changing a number of setting, installing the TerminalColors SIMBL plugin, and anything else I could think of, but my color scheme is always monotone.
infocmp's first few lines:
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-color
xterm-color|nxterm|generic color xterm,
am, km, mir, msgr, xenl,
colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, ncv@, pairs#64,
Please let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!

Figured it out.
"ls -G" does it (duh)
Don't remember doing this in Tiger, but perhaps I did.
Added
alias ls="ls -G"
to ~/.profile
to make this automatic.

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