MC blacks screen when done

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Hi.  When I'm done with mc, it, for some reason, turns the screen
black on black - making it impossible to see output or input.  I type
"reset" to fix it.  Any way to solve this?

GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1-pre1a
LANG=en_US.iso885915
TERM=xterm
Linux xxxxxxxx.com 2.6.9-11.EL #1 Wed Jun 8 16:59:52 CDT 2005 i686
athlon i386 GNUnux
CentOS release 4.1 (Final)
mc-4.6.1-0.8.1