On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:10:44 -0500, Tom Banes
wrote:

Help us.

What wood? What finish? What was cause of "stops", meaning "strips",
I hope.

TLI (too little information).

Don't use bleach until you know WTF is going on! Bleach is good,
bleach is great. Bleach can foul up wood to a degree that you can't
imagine. It can literally dissolve the fiber (i.e. destroy the wood).

More data required.

I think he means dry mold. I don't know what to do with that either,
except I've seen it simply used as is in cheap flea-market finish it
yourself "furniture".