The only place I've found to set anything related to Render is in the Export menu, so I checked that and it is set to jpg; I did an export and the exported image is also monochrome, same as the Render command produces.
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OK, I decided to start from scratch and this time it renders with the color. Go figure... I did it exactly the same way. There are only three or four steps! Oh well, thanks for responding.