modeline colors

[Eli Barzilay]

Does anyone know why in some versions of Emacs (specifically, the one
shipped with FC6: 21.4.1), changing the default background disables
my modeline color setting?

If I put this (and only this) in my .emacs:

  (set-face-background 'modeline "red")
  (set-face-background 'default "blue4")

I get a modeline with the default color.  After Emacs has already
started, evaluating that first line again produces the expected
result.  Is this some corner case bug?

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