Unable to parse color:

[Mike McCarty]

Recently I began having a problem with X Window and Fedora
Core 2. Various applications (xscreensaver, xterm, others)
are displaying this message:

<program>: can't parse color: e6e6e6
<program>: can't parse color: 000000

where "<program>" may be "xterm" etc.

I am using Gnome GTK 2.0 with BlueCurve as the theme. I have
found two files with e6e6e6 in them, specifying colors, but
each has "#e6e6e6", not just "e6e6e6". For example, in
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc is the line

bg[NORMAL]     =     "#e6e6e6"

I do not have a $HOME/.Xresources file. I have not edited
/etc/X11/Xresources.

I made an entry in rgb.txt for

230 230 230    e6e6e6
   0   0   0    000000

so these "colors" are now recognized and display properly,
but this cannot be right.

Any help available?

Mike