Pale green dialog box backgrounds?

Okay, this isn't exactly a critical question, but...
After upgrading to Leopard, all of my dialog boxes have a VERY pale green background (220/232/218 RGB) -- but the background to text within those boxes is the "correct" pale gray (232/232/232 RGB).
This was true before my recent upgrade to 10.5.2...
Obviously something is corrupt somewhere (unless everyone is experiencing this and just doesn't see it or mention it) -- any thoughts on where I might begin fixing such a thing? It's true across all apps.

Thanks for that! Okay, that's at least FOUR of us -- and I'm thinking it's just us who are observant enough (or whose monitors are bright enough) to be able to tell the difference.
I have to say, it's especially obnoxious in places like the iTunes preferences box, which is large with lots of separate blocks of text...
Also interesting that it isn't true for third-party software preference panes, or the system preferences background (although that's large alternating bands of dark and light, so obviously not a "stock" background).

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