  When considering strangelets at finite temperature it is important to obey
the constraint that any observed state must be color singlet. This constraint
results in an increase in strangelet masses as calculated at fixed entropy per
baryon. We use the color singlet partition function for an MIT bag, derived
using the group theoretical projection method, to calculate strangelet masses.
Mean shell effects are included in a liquid drop model, by using a density of
states obtained from the multiple reflection expansion. Another important
effect of the color singlet restriction, namely many orders of magnitude
suppression of thermal nucleation of quark-gluon plasma in collisions, will
also briefly be described.
