UITableViewCell draws its text white a white background

Question

Has anyone had the problem where UITableViewCell draws its text with a white background, like this:
!http://homepage.mac.com/markkrenek/cellbackground.png!
This is a standard UITableViewCell in which I have specified has a background view, like this:
cell.backgroundView = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:cell.bounds] autorelease];
cell.backgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.9 alpha:1.0];
That's what's drawing gray. But the text label drawn by UITableViewCell draws with a white background obscuring a portion of the background view.
I've tried numerous things like setting the cell and its content view to use clearColor as their background. The issue, I believe, is that the UILabel that UITableViewCell uses needs to have its background color set to clearColor. But there's no way to access that through the UITableViewCell API.

Answer 1

As I mentioned, when I used a built in template, like contemporary, it worked too.  The problem only happened with the IBA that I was given.  Perhaps the previous owner of the file had accidentally chosen Format/Advanced/Define Default Glossary Style when they had some white on white displayed and caused all the formatting for the glossary to be the same.  I was able to fix it using that menu path.
I'm not sure what fixing it in the "source file" means.  I was trying to fix it in the IBA file.  Not sure where else I would have fixed it.