Blank panels showing up in Advanced User Profiles?

I just upgraded from I believe 3.0-rc1 to 3.2, and while everything seems to have gone smoothly, I'm stuck with two changes that don't seem right.

First, prior to upgrading, empty panels/fields in my Advanced User Profile pages would not show up at all. This was good, because what's the point in an empty panel?

Now, as per the attachment, all panels are showing up irrespective of whether they have content or not. For example, Contact, Web Links, and Location are all empty for this test user and should not be cluttering up the display this way.

Is there any way to correct this?

Second, more cosmetically, I notice the default display scheme now puts a gray bar behind the title of each panel with the panel title in white text. I can see how this might be clearer for some, but I think I actually preferred it the old way - with the whole panel clean white and the title font black/gray.

Any pointers on how to modify this as well?

Help with either is appreciated, but getting the blank panels hidden again is my biggest need.

Thanks.