ErnieLongmire -
I'm not seeing this behavior. I'm using Beta 5, so if you haven't given it a try yet, you might want to download it from:
http://www.vandyke.com/download/securecrt/beta.html
Using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, with xterm emulation with ANSI color enabled, I get the expected output from 256colors2.pl .
Are you consistently able to reproduce this with Beta 5 ?
Please let us know.
~JcJ