Color Schemes/Visual Customization

I've always had bad luck with 3rd party GUI customization tools, so are there any provided by apple that'll allow me to change the look [just very basic stuff, like the close/minimize/maximize button colors] safely, or is there a way for me to do it myself fairly easily that anyone can recommend?
Thanks

uh...I meant for this to be a completely different topic, not about disabling animations and such but purely about skinning, though I should've used that word I guess. I don't believe skinning fits into the other topic, because a totally different group of applications are used for that, as far as I've seen. So, that's why I posted this topic, not as an intentional rephrase of the other, but I'll try those programs and ask again later if they don't answer this one as well.

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<dir>
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</dir>

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The lack
of transperans
leads
to people
with
visual disabilities,
have
great difficulty
using the program.
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a web designer,
who
for years
has worked
with color schemes
on websites
and
it is therefore
incomprehensible, that
a company
like Microsoft,
does not
take into account
these
issues.
I
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software packages
for
many years,
but
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for
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18 point Helvetica Bold .
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Kind regards,
Ian.

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