Clipboard/background colour in Illustrator CS4

I'm finding the clipboard colour in Illustrator CS4 very distracting when working - is there any way of setting this to a default of white as per CS3 (and also available in photoshop CS4).
The default clipboard colour is an off-white and doesn't appear to be very neutral on my screen.
The only way round I have found is to view the background/clipboard as a Transparency Grid and then make the transparency grid white, or hide the artboard altogether (which is annoying), both of these cannot be set as a default.
I have included a picture of a corner of the artboard, showing it against the clipboard.
Would appreciate a solution!
Cheers,
N

Thanks for that - another good solution but not possible for this to be a default setting either.
Does anyone else find this issue a problem - it seems strange to me as Indesign CS4 and the old version of illustrator both have pure white backgrounds, which are (arguably) easier to work with.
It seems a step backwards to have a fixed coloured background! Please make it a preference option Adobe!

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