There does seem to be two revisions of the CD32, one has the Commodore text painted white and a raised ridge area at the back of the CD-ROM lid, the other lacks this.
I always thought the ones with the white text and ridge were the later NTSC models for Canada?
I have a NTSC CD32 with the raised ridge and white Commodore text. I wonder if som99's CD32 is an NTSC model. If his monitor/TV displays NTSC modes correctly, then he may not notice a problem until he finds a PAL only game. This would still only be a minor inconvenience as PAL can be selected in the boot menu before loading a game.