Just as a foot note. this user is utilizing the tool pallet to do his hatch. also we checked on the bhatch dialog, the retain boundaries is not checked. just as to reword the original concern. after this user has hatched a field and completed that command he will then go to draw any item such as text, lines, circles, you name it, and it comes out in hatch color and wants to print with the hatch line weights. Now you can go change the layer to cabinet layer with red as its color and it still draws in yellow with hatch properties.
thank you for what ever help you can provide....