Kevin,
Blimey , you managed to get a whole new release dedicated to resolving your issue !! 
Well, I wouldn't call it only my issue, since it did affect everyone. If I hadn't posted, someone else would have. But like Gil said of FB, it was more of an visual annoyance than anything. I purposely did not save a sequence just in case there was more to it though.
I happened to be online a couple minutes after I saw Sean release the new version on Github, so I downloaded the source code and compiled it on my Mac, only to discover the issue then. I waited until Dan released the official Mac version just to make sure it wasn't something I did on my end. Although I still get the weird color pallet window when I compile the source code myself.