Upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 23.2

[gerald . jean]

Hello,

recently our IT upgraded Emacs from 22.3 to 23.2.  Using exactly the same
.emacs file the fontification and the colors are very different.

M-x list-colors-display   yields:

22.3 --- 542 colors and gray shades.
23.2 ---     3 colors.

I use font-lock a lot and now some words are so pale I can't even read
them.  What is causing that?  is there a way around it?  could it be
compilation flags?

This is under RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 on a 64-bit machine.

Thanks for any support,

Gérald Jean
Conseiller senior en statistiques,
VP Actuariat et Solutions d'assurances,
Desjardins Groupe d'Assurances Générales
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