Ahhhh nope! Spoke too soon. The reason I'm not seeing the discolored thumbnails is because my tiger skin settings defaulted back to the Pages => "Link to Originals" setting instead of the "Link to originals via scaled images" setting I usually have them on. As soon as I turned on the scaled images setting, I see the discoloration again. sigh
Are you saying that the link settings are changing by themselves? No skin defaults to
Link to originals.
But the linking wouldn't matter - the thumbnails are always pumped through the image processor. That setting affects only the slide images.
Finally, even changing skins doesn't automatically regenerate the thumbnails or slides. The only thing that causes that is changing the image bounds, or forcing reprocessing by choosing
Force Remake.
I'm sorry you're having these problems, but until someone can boil this down to a small album that shows the error, and in a way that someone else can reproduce, there's not much that can be done. Doing a
complete uninstall/reinstall is absolutely vital, and reverting to all default settings would help narrow things down. Open your config directory -
Tools, Open directories, Config directory - and delete
defaults.jap, along with any skin defaults, like
Tiger-defaults.jap.
Then, after making sure that you have backup copies of your project, choose a different skin, then, without even processing the album, switch back to the original skin. This will reset all of the skin settings to their default values. Delete the output - click the little down-arrow next to the project name and choose
Delete, Delete local album. Now
Make Album.
If you're still seeing the problem, start excluding things and doing forced remakes until you can zero in on which objects seem to be triggering the problem. The objective of this exercise is to get to an album that shows the problem, but that's small enough to zip up and pass along to David.
One random thought.... On the theory that there's some sort of multi-threading issue, go to
Tools, Preferences, Advanced, and change the number of threads to 1. Now do a
Force Remake. This will definitely be
much slower, but it might shed some light on what's happening.
And, as always, if you see a little warning triangle at lower right, open the system console (F7), and copy and paste whatever messages you see there (beyond the boilerplate, which ends with "You can interact with any Java object").