Changing colors

[Russell <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Hi all,

I'm using mc 4.5.55 on debian.

On a normal text console, if i do any of:
  mc -C yellow,green
  mc -C normal=yellow,green
  mc -c -C normal=yellow,green

then i still get a blue background and grey/white text.
The same thing happens in an xterm, but the background
is a light steel-blue that i want to make darker. What
am i doing wrong?