I recently put together an awesome new desktop machine for gaming. Of course I immediately put Kubuntu Feisty on it. When compiz-fusion came out I slapped that on there too. It worked great... except for the ccsm (CompizConfig Settings Manager) App. Just about everything in that application was black text on a black background. I thought perhaps it had something to do with Compiz. I removed Compiz, but then noticed that Kino had the same problem.

I thought that it must be a GTK app issue so I searched Google for "black menus gtk". Sure enough here is a post on the Kubuntu Forums.