Fade in/Fade out poor rendering across browsers

Fade in/Fade out poor rendering across browsers

Hi.

I'm having problems with my text appearing aliased and turning blue when it fades in and out.  I've tried using the Newsticker plugin and the Easyticker plugin, and I'm getting the same result in IE7 and Firefox 3.6.

I'm using jQuery 1.2.6-min

Any idea what might be causing this?  The examples on the plugin websites look fine, but when I try and implement the effect myself, my orange text becomes aliased and fades to a light blue color before dipping to white.  Same thing happens on the fade in.  attached is a screenshot of what I'm seeing.

Thanks,

JP