text appears in prompt font in RTF content control

[eli.rhodes]

I am attaching a template where one particular content control is acting oddly --the one below "RESIDENTIAL vs. COMMERCIAL SETTING". Any text entered here appears in the same gray font as the prompt. I have tried fixing this by deleting and replacing both the control and the entire paragraph, but after I save, close & re-open the template, the glitch reappears. All the other controls are behaving as they should, i.e., the entered text is black even if the prompt is gray.