Thanks framers: I found that the unknown message "Value of Separation out of range" error message is not an "error" at all but a FM message to make its color palettes backwardly compatible. It can safely be ignored. Why did I think it was an error? I had clicked on the "show file translation errors" in the preferences and picked up the curious message in the console. It would have helped if the FM engineers had provided a list of messages and perhaps have added the word "color".
So I am still trying to find my problem, Rob Shell Windows Seven FrameMaker 9 patched 4 GB RAM 3 TB hd
