Hi Frank;

Nice blog entry, thanks! I see from your screenshot that you use the buggy version of Google Earth 4.0.1693 (if you use Google Earth 4; there is a similar problem with Google Earth 3). Because of this, the colors of .gif placemarks are messed up. The Auger surface detector tanks should be sand colored rather than sky blue... Strangely enough this seems to affect only the rendering of .gif files: .jpg's are unaffected. The bug was introduced when they went from Google Earth 4.0.1565 to 4.0.1693 , and unfortunately Google Earth no longer links the 4.0.1565 installation file. I had kept a copy which I am temporarily making available for download at http://www.phys.psu.edu/~coutu/GoogleEarthWin.exe (I will remove this link once they fix the bug). One has to uninstall first the current buggy version prior to installing the old version. The newer version must have fixed something else, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what (it seems to work just as well as version 4.0.1693, and of course better in terms of rendering colors).

Cheers,

Stephane