Preview not annotating in color

All of a sudden when I attempt to annotate a jpg or pdf file, Preview will not save it in color. The annotation appears to be in a color font but upon saving the document or image and then reopening it, the color only appears to be gray. This is frustrating when you need to have a citation on a document that is black or white. The text virtually blends into the background.
This action occurred very suddenly. 5 days ago it worked fine and today it doesn't.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
Carole

I've been following this thread and several others about this same issue with interest. Today I went to Astronomy Picture of the Day to take a look at the pix for August and downloaded eight of them. Whether it matters or not, I made a folder on my Desktop, then dragged the full picture from its "picture only" page into the folder. After I finished I opened the folder, did Command-A and double clicked the group. All eight opened in Preview and I used the down arrow to move from one to the next.
I did an upgrade install of Snow Leopard on a VERY clean install of Leopard (pretty much no third party anything had been added, certainly no haxies, Contextual Menu items, Input Managers, menu bar extras, and only a limited number of third party applications).
So unfortunately it looks like I can't investigate this issue since I can't reproduce it. Haven't seen anything in the discussions of the issue so far that lead me any theory about why some people have it and some, including me, don't.
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