Setting FillColor to transparent

Hello all,
I am having a problem with a form I am laying out in LiveCycle Designer. I have a textfield that users click on and enter information. After the users are done updating the text field, if the text field contains a value I want it the fillcolor to be white. If the text field contains no value, I want it to be tranparent.
I already have the code to check to see if the text field is empty or if it has a value. My problem is in making the field transparent. In previous versions of Acrobat I used to use:
this.getField("FieldName").fillColor = color.white;
and
this.getField("FieldNme").fillColor = color.transparent;
this.getField no longer works with this new Acrobat. Instead, with LiveCycle Designer, for white, I am using:
this.fillColor = "255", "255", "255";
which works perfectly. I don't know how to set the transparency.
this.fillColor = color.transparent;
does absolutely nothing.
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Matt

Chris, first off thank you so much for your patience. I really appreciate it.
I opened your sample file and it works perfectly. But when I create something similar myself it simply doesn't work. I created a brand new file, inserted an image, and inserted a textbox on top of it. I gave the textbox a white fill, and I copied and pasted your code into the text field's Exit event. And it just doesn't work.
What's more, I tried copying and pasting your textbox and image into a file of mine, and yours didn't work in my file.
I have uploaded my sample. I don't know how to attach files to these messages, so you can find it at:
If you could just take a quick look at it and let me know what I am doing wrong that would be great. I'm sure it's something minor.
Oh, and for the record, I am using Adobe LiveCycle Designer Version 7, 0, 041126, 0 Cipher: 128-bit, in case that has something to do with it.
This is driving me up a wall. I thought this would take 2 minutes to do and I have literally spent hours trying to make it work.

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