Mary 3233,
Thank you for posting this fix. After trying all the obvious things I was waiting patiently for support to get back to me. So glad I checked the forum as your solution worked. No more purple sliders and no annoying watermarks. Uninstall and reinstall I did think of that but being a newbie was affraid I might make matters worse.
Happy days. :-)

Thanks, I got the RL reply too and this issue is fixed. Now I just need them to fix the male character's export texture mismatch. I just retested, the 3.3+ male base seems fine. It's the 3.2 males bases that go all silvery.