[Alan Evans]

Thanks for your responses, jeffn1 and akoster :-)
That is a really good fix for most cases. However, being able to move an annotation up or down on the list will offer quite a bit more flexibility, I believe. Mike says he's got an easy solution in the next update, so by having his fix and your suggestions to change the bg color to white will make my work process a lot easier.
Thanks again for your help.