Try the reverse order and without the "Window 1" statement:

color _zred
print "";
print "blürf!!"
stop

print "";
color _zred
print "blürf!!"
stop


This is probably caused by some property of the system/compiler that I  
am unaware of, I mainly wondered about what that could be.

Furthermore, try this one in FB4 (yields black, then red text) and in  
FB5 (black *only*):

WINDOW 1,"Blürf!!",(  42,  78)-( 713, 311), 1285
edit field 1,"",(300,181)-(450,200),7,_leftjust
color _zred
edit field 1,"Blürf!!"
do
until len(inkey$)

color _zred
edit$(1)="Blürf!!"

do
until len(inkey$)

Regards,

Dan