OpenGL bitmap fonts (NeHe lesson 13) and textures

I am learning opengl from NeHe tutorials and I am currently on bitmap fonts: lesson 13; for learning purposes I wanted to add a shape with a texture for refreshing my memory and I have found a bug.

When ever I load a texture the text that prints turns a very dark color. I have found to stop this from happening I use glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); and then enable it to draw the texture.

Code:

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        glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
            Courier.printf("I AM A BANANA");
        glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

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I am still getting a bug. The first charactor that prints out is still that dark color I mentioned earlier; the rest of the text is fine though. The printf function looks like this:

Code:

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void Text::printf(const char *fmt, ...)
{
    char text[256];
    va_list ap;

    if (fmt == NULL)
        return;


    va_start(ap, fmt);
        vsprintf(text,fmt,ap);
    va_end(ap);

    glPushAttrib(GL_LIST_BIT);
    glListBase(base-32);

    glCallLists(strlen(text),GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, text);

    glPopAttrib();
}

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What do I need to do to fix it. Thanks for any help.

ok instead of enableing and disabling textures i found this makes it white

Code:

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        glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
        //glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
        Courier.printf("I AM A BANANA");
        //glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

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But I can't make it any other color besides white.


Also here is how I load the font and text:

Code:

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Text::Text(std::string name, int size, bool bold, bool underline,  bool italic)
{
    int weight;

    if (bold)
        weight = FW_BOLD;
    else
        weight = FW_NORMAL;

    HFONT font;
        HFONT oldfont;

        base = glGenLists(96);

        font = CreateFont(  -size,
                        0, 0, 0,
                        weight,
                        italic,
                        underline,
                        false,
                        ANSI_CHARSET,
                        OUT_TT_PRECIS,
                        CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,
                        ANTIALIASED_QUALITY,
                        FF_DONTCARE|DEFAULT_PITCH,
                        name.c_str()
                      );

    oldfont = (HFONT)SelectObject(hDC, font);
        wglUseFontBitmaps(hDC, 32, 96, base);
        SelectObject(hDC, oldfont);
        DeleteObject(font);

}

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