Groups are affected individually. If you ungroup a group the effects for
that group are either lost or split among other objects. It is as
Fireworks engineers refer to it: a FOL or Fact Of Life.

Lanny Heidbreder wrote:
> Fireworks MX. I create a bunch of shapes and group them. I apply fill,
> texture, and drop shadow to the group. I then apply a vector mask to
> the group, using the vector shape's grayscale appearance. Everything's
> fine.
>
> But then when I ungroup the group from the mask, the attributes of the
> group are screwed up; the group shows the same fill and texture of the
> vector mask it was grouped with. When I try to change either one, the
> erroneous fill and texture are applied, and I get a whole bunch of black
>
>>white gradients instead of what I choose. Then if I try to change it
>
> AGAIN, it corrects itself.
>
> Is this a bug, or is it a "feature" I don't understand?
>
> Thanks,
> Lanny Heidbreder
>