Colors in Mail 2.1

I often have trouble locating the message I am reading in the message header window, because the background color (grey) is not sufficiently different from that of the unselected messages in the header list.
Is there a way to choose a different kind of highlighting or background color for the selected message header?
G4 15 in Powerbook, G4 tower Mac OS X (10.4.9) Mail 2.1

The highlight color would be whatever you’ve chosen in System Preferences > Appearance if the message list pane has “focus”. It loses the color and appears gray if another pane (e.g. the preview pane) has the “focus”. Pressing the Tab key causes the “next” pane to gain focus. Pressing Shift+Tab causes the “previous” pane to gain focus.
Hence, if the preview pane is the one that has focus, as is usually the case, pressing Shift+Tab should cause the message list (which is the “previous” pane in that window) to gain focus and the selected message appear highlighted in whatever color you’ve chosen in System Preferences > Appearance.
I hope I’ve understood what you meant and what I said is somewhat clear.

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