Emacs text colors messed up

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

All shadow framebuffer test builds with correct colors exhibit one strange
glitch: when displaying Emacs running on a remote host in Cygwin/XFree86,
Emacs draws some colors of text on a white background, regardless of the
actual background color of the Emacs window that was specified by a .emacs
file.  Read that carefully.  Emacs displays the correct background color and
it displays some text colors overtop of the background color correctly, but
for some text colors Emacs makes background color surrounding each character
white, instead of the background color.

I really need to get this fixed, as I use Emacs for my computer science
projects and I want to be able to use the latest test builds for my
projects, partly to test the server, and partly because it will be
convenient for me to do so.

So, does anybody have any ideas as to why this happens?  Is it something
wrong with the fonts in Cygwin/XFree86?  Is it something wrong with the
colormap that we use for X?

I have displayed Emacs running on three different machines, including two
Mandrake Linux machines, and the Sun Solaris server run by our computer
science department.  All of these machines display Emacs correct locally,
and they all display remote Emacs sessions correctly.  However,
Cygwin/XFree86 munges the Emacs display from all three machines.

Any help, pointers, or research into this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Harold