Just wanted to thank Craig and others who suggested the problem it  
might be a font issue.
That was indeed the problem.

Lest anyone else have the same problem, here was the solution:

Delete the fonts that were not showing up. In our case, Arial...all  
types... and Courier.
Start machine from an OSX Disk and run Disk Utility Repair Permissions.
Reinstall Fonts.

Sue




On May 26, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Craig Gaevert wrote:

> Which flavor of 10.6? 10.6.7 has a known font issue for which there  
> was a patch delivered by way of software update, though this seemed  
> to affect printing far more than display. Which font specifically is  
> the issue? Have you tried changing the font on the buttons, etc. in  
> question?
>
> Craig
>
>
> On May 26, 2011, at 09:22 , Sue wrote:
>
>> Anyone have a clue what sort of conflict could be causing FMpro  
>> 10.6 and 11 via FMPro Server 11 to open but show blank buttons and  
>> blank fields and portals.
>>
>> We have this happening on 2 Mac laptops.  Same permissions on other  
>> machines, no problems.  Different permissions on the problem  
>> machines, same issue.  So it is not permissions related.
>>
>> Clearly it is something to do with software conflicts or settings  
>> on the two machines.  One was working fine with FMpro up until  
>> today--apparently there were some printer software updates in the  
>> interim between when it worked and present--suggesting those might  
>> be the problem.  The other had not been in use for Filemaker prior  
>> to report of this problem.
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone else may have encountered (and solved?)  
>> similar problems.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Sue
>>