As far as colors, as long as we are redesigning, it should be a simple matter to have editable preferences, so you could use the color picker to choose any colors you want for background, text, etc. for the interface.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy