Is the highlight tool now the default redact tool?

I don't use either very much, highlight more than redact though. Anyway, today I was trying to apply some highlights, and every time it came up as black, as in redaction. I tried to find where I could change the black to another color and finally found that by right-clicking on the black rectangle and going to Properties. But that had to be done every time I "highlighted" - and the label for the icon I was using did say Highlight, not Redact. What happened to the option to change colors via the Highlighting tool? Anybody else notice this or am I overlooking something totally obvious? I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro, continuous release version 2004.004.20243