PSE 7 - Layer Styles don't show on white background?

Hello!
I've encountered some odd, but repeatable, situations with PSE 7's Layer Styles. If you have a white background, add a layer to that and then apply the Layer Style (like "Blue Ghost," "Heavy Noisy," "Noisy," "Radioactive," and others) you do not see the Layer Style.
However, the layer is marked with the "fx" symbol. And...what really surprised me is that if I change the color of my background layer to anything but white, they then show up! Note that things like "Radioactive" is a bright green edging layer styleit should easily show up on white. And my layer that has the layer style applied to it is above the background layer and visible. The picture part of the layer is quite visible, but the layer style is not as long as the background layer is white.
I think this is a glitch/bug...but it's odd, because it's not there in PSE 6 and I can't imagine why Adobe would change this in PSE 7...and as far as I know there is no "new" feature associated with Layer Styles in PSE 7.
If anyone has any other information on this or a work-around, I'd be most interested in hearing about it.
Thank you!
Beverly Schulz

Beverly,
I can't imagine that another Beverly Schulz would be posting to this forum other than the one that teaches for ed2go. Since your name popped up here I want to take the opportunity to say that I took PSE5 Advanced and it was the best ever online class I have taken. The knowledge has served me well and I still refer to my notes.
I hope someone can solve your problem. I am now working in PSE7 and am interested in the responses.
Best of luck.
A former student,
Dianne McDermand

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