Bratwurst

I've looked everywhere in the options to change this - I usually can figure this kind of thing out on my own but I give up on this one. Maybe someone here knows the answer....

Everytime I hit reply to an email in outlook 2003 it picks a new color for my text. It drives me nuts! Sometimes I am writing back in weird purple tones, sometimes in light blue you can barely see on the screen. So I have to go up and change the color to black almost every email I send. I know I can switch my client to use text only instead of html but there are reasons I would like to keep it as html by default.

I found an option to make fonts always black and made the change from auto to black but it didn't make any difference on replies. Anyone know where to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

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