Little bug in Access Connections [fixed]

Today I have reinstalled my OS (with drivers and applications) twice because of problems with WiFi application (famous Fn+F5)... but I'm too tired of this to describing it tonight
What I want to say is that I have noticed small bug (?) in Access Connections. It is not very important, but maybe developers would fix it: so, with themes turned off there are some labels near radio buttons missing (picture 2).With themes turned on everything is ok (picture 1).
picture 1
picture 2
Access Connections 5.30
XP Pro sp3 32bit
Message Edited by kuba on 08-06-2009 05:18 PM
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OMG... It was connected to windows standard color theme - inactive text had similar color to background color so thats why there was no visible text near radio buttons :/ Sorry for my mistake. 

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