On Windows platforms, our background color is selected correctly in most cases. However, if you set the background to the same dark blue color found in the Clock demo, then launch that same clock demo, the clock demo background is in fact red.
If you pick a certain light grey color, the background is grey but the color drawn by getBackground() is a light blue ( cyan ) color.
For most color settings, our implementation works, but I'm unsure what would happen with different combinations, especially where the applet uses other colors; it sounds like we aren't copying the first 20 palette entries correctly in all cases.