Change Preview's highlight color when seraching PDF files.

I cannot see the gray highlight color when searching for key words in pdf files.
How can I change the color to something that is visible?
Or should I just forget preview for pdf files & get acrobat reader?

I sort of changed mine to Red in 10.4.11 for the same reason.
Quit Preview, paste this into Terminal window & press enter...
defaults write com.apple.Preview AppleHighlightColor "1.0 0.0 0.0"
The values are R G B in 0 to 1 scale.
Start Preview, now do a search, press Tab, the search will show in Red Highlight, but not in the PDF it's self.
Adobe Reader will highlight within the PDF in a better color.
On searching through PDFs, might see...
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/
I'm not on 10.5/10.6 now to see, but iirc it hasn't changed.

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