Reading Color values from registry won't work? Help! [solved]

[mrdutchie]

Hello,
I created some entries in the registry where I want to save my colors.

It saves it in the registry as

Name: Background
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: ff400000

When I try to read it with

regKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("Software\testprogram\colors", True)
msgbox(regKey.GetValue("background"))

I am getting a value of -12345902

I can't figure out how to get the "ff400000" value
then the other problem is how can I put it back as a background
color

Me.BackColor = "ff400000" won't work..

Can someone help me with these 2 little problems.
Thanks so much.

Perry