Colored sidebar icons?

I can't find an answer as to how to get the color back into my Lion sidebar icons. Is there a way to do this...?
Thanks

hi guys
check this link out, it's a good workaround to this problem. i have MINIMAL experience doing this kind of thing but dared doing it & you know what ? it bleeding WORKS !!!
now as soon as i switch on my computer, all my sidebar icons are my custom, colored ones i had originally set - hurray !
this is the link :
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1197960&page=5 check post nº 107 on page 5
have fun ;-)

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All anyone here can say is "because that's what Apple decided". Whether this will ever change we can't say, being just your fellow users in these forums. You can comment to Apple via their feedback page, if you wish:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
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I can do that, and, the icons show up as folders there, too, although I think they're supposed to there. I'm talking about on the sidebar, where they should normally look like one of these and they don't.

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Two other options are below:
Go to the link below, download and install the program. Please read the instructions on the page.
http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Then go to the link below, download and extract the program. Put the program in the plugins folder created above.
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bmagargal wrote:
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