I was wondering if anybody else had experienced this same problem and had a fix or work around. Using netbeans 5, I created a new project, added a JFrame and then put a few JTabbedPane's on it. change the background colors of each tab and then run it. What happens is my background that I choose flashes before me and then the default blue-ish gray color shows for all my tab's. So basically i'm unable to set it to a desired color. I did the same exact process on the windows version of netbeans 5 and it works fine, all of my chosen colors are set. All of the other components seem to work fine so far, the only one I've experienced a problem with is the JTabbedPane