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"Tim Visher" <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote in
news:mailman.2675.1229125930.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org: 

>> Check the value of "fringe"
> Thanks for the tip Peter.  Unfortunately, I don't appear to have a
> fringe variable

Try executing the lisp command
	(set-face-background 'fringe "navy")
and see if the fringe area changes color.  (I'm using this in emacs 22.2.1 
under Windows.)