Hi Ken,
I Just started playing too, works great, see my other post.
On your possible bug, I agree, but it only affects the GUI foreground colour (the menu that pops up when you hit F7), so its not a biggie. You'll notice that you cannot change the GUI foreground colour in the F7 menu. I'll add to your change by adding...
trs_sdl_gui.c: line 1752: "gui_foreground" ==>...
2009-01-15 05:28:08 UTC in sdltrs