formtips change according to where you are on the site

The formtips worked great when I added help descriptions as I built content type.
The tips all look good for the content type added entry boxes.

WHen I go other places on the site and hover over the icon I get a dark background small height, no border, non-readable. This is for help descriptions that the Drupal created. The help descriptions are there, and they do popup for forms, i.e, contact. The icons are beside the label, but the formtip is not like those using the formtips.css.

I suspect CSS for theme is overriding css formtips. I did change the formtips.css colors to show up better on my site.
I didn't change anything else, only Background, text and border colors changed.

This is a good module for my site, because users need context sensitive help often.