White background then black

Binary package hint: gdm

The new black gdm theme for Karmic looks great but I noticed an aesthetic problem. When gdm first comes up the background around the user's pictures and names is white then switches to black after a name is clicked.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 2 21:47:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu11
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2019): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2019): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2113): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2157): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed