prima behavior - blacking out areas...

I was trying to make a tiny little gui program just to display a
little information and I'm getting some really weird behavior from
Prima. I tried to search for some Prima list archives, but I couldn't
find any and the majordomo 'get' doesn't seem to work very well.

I took a screenshot containing the VB object browser and help window
(with the "find" dialog up) as well as the little program I'm trying
to make.

http://www.metrocast.net/~aharrison/screenshot-prima.jpg (~140K)

I'm running opensuse 10.2 with perl 5.8.8. I originally tried the
regular Prima 1.24 package straight from cpan, but I deinstalled that
and tried installing the perl-Prima-1.21 binary package from one of
the suse repositories to see if that would help, but the symptom is
exactly the same.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

More details:

(403)[9:48am] > lshal -u computer -l | egrep 'system.(product|vendor)'
  system.product = 'Sun Ultra 40 Workstation 11' (string)
  system.vendor = 'Sun Microsystems' (string)

(397)[9:46am] > lshal -u acpi_CPU0 -l | egrep 'info.(product|vendor)'
  info.product = 'AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246' (string)

(398)[9:46am] > lshal -u acpi_CPU1 -l | egrep 'info.(product|vendor)'
  info.product = 'AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246' (string)

(389)[9:44am] > lshal -u pci_10de_165 -l | egrep 'info.(product|vendor)'
  info.vendor = 'nVidia Corporation' (string)
  info.product = 'NV44 [Quadro NVS 285]' (string)

(404)[9:50am] > uname -a
Linux ultra40 2.6.18.8-0.7-default #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 17:21:08 UTC 2007
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

(344)[9:33am] > scandeps.pl -B -e 'use Prima'
'Carp::Heavy' => '1.04',
'Thread' => '2.00',
'overload' => '1.04',
'utf8' => '1.06',
'AutoLoader' => '5.60',
'Config' => 'undef',
'Exporter::Heavy' => '5.58',
'Prima::Classes' => 'undef',
'vars' => '1.01',
'Prima::Const' => 'undef',
'DynaLoader' => '1.05',
'UNIVERSAL' => '1.01',
'strict' => '1.03',
'List::Util' => '1.19',
'attributes' => '0.06',
'threads::shared' => '0.94',
'XSLoader' => '0.06',
'Exporter' => '5.58',
'Prima' => '1.21',
'Scalar::Util' => '1.19',
'Carp' => '1.04',
'warnings::register' => '1.01',
'warnings' => '1.05',

(not sure which of the other x11 packages might be related)

xorg-x11-7.2-28
nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-100.14.09_2.6.18.8_0.3-1.1
x11-video-nvidiaG01-100.14.09-2.1

-- 
Andy Harrison
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