Gray Background on Epix Data Field

I'm getting a light gray background and a medium gray font on a data field on an Epix when I expect to get White background and black text. It works fine on the simulator. It works fine on other 64 color devices. It works fine when I set it to have a black background (I get black background and white text)

Here's a pic of the flaw. The top data field is the problem one.



Here's the code that sets the colors.

function onUpdate(dc) {

var color = self.getBackgroundColor();
dc.setColor(color, color);
dc.clear();
Sys.println("color" + color);
Sys.println("black: " + Gfx.COLOR_BLACK);
Sys.println("white: " + Gfx.COLOR_WHITE);

dc.setColor(~color & 0xFFFFFF, Gfx.COLOR_TRANSPARENT);


The printlns produce the following on the simulator.

color16777215
black: 0
white: 16777215

But they produce the following on the device.

color12632256
black: 0
white: 16777215


So it seems that getBackgroundColor() returns gray instead of white when the background is set to white on the Epix device. I'm assuming this is a bug???