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The latex wikibook http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions acutally has a section that talks about this. Basically, you just use \vspace{-xx}, where xx is some positive value for the amount of space you want to remove, after the caption. I wasn't able to read the materials ...

Just to help anyone that runs into a similar problem. The answer is \hhline, which needs the package of the same name. The problem is with the way \cline works and it shows up with the colortbl package as well. If interested, the attached links can shed some light from someone much smarter than me ...

Thanks phi. At least I am not completely losing my mind over here. I will try to use the colortbl package or xcolor to see what happens.

Alright, let me try this again. The missing piece for the \LCC and \ECC was the \usepackage{pstricks}. Anyways, here is a comilable version of the code. Notice the top line does not appear over the Two upper most cells (Advantages and Disadvantages), if I do not shade the boxes the lines appear, but ...

So after digging through my code some more. The problem is with using colortab and \cline. It looks as though the colortab package overwrites color onto the \cline. Is there a work around for this? This code is as minimal as I can get. It uses packages colortab and multirow.

I am working on my masters thesis and have made several tables previously. The one listed below looks fine in DVI, but when I put it into pdf the top line on rows 2-3 does not show up. At first I thought it was a resolution thing, but when I print it out in hardcopy, it is really not there.

Here is ...