Disable list view stripes

Anyone figure out how to disable the annoying list view stripes (alternating white and blue stripes in list view)? I don't want the Finder to look like a check book register!
TinkerTool has been updated for 10.6, but the option is gone. My old AppleScript that I downloaded no longer works. Hopefully someone will figure that out.
Apple...how about making that a user-preference? Not everyone likes that!

I suspect no one has yet figured out where/what is controlling that. In Leopard it was a "hidden" preference, so a simple default write command to change the plist worked to turn it off. One of the first things I tried was issuing the command in the Terminal....and nothing happened. The idiotic behavior of the Help window could be changed in the same way in Leopard, and in Snow Leopard it fails as well. Checking the two relevant plists I see that the option for no stripes is indeed in the Finder preference, and the option for a normal window is in the helpviewer preference. So what has changed is that the programs simply do not use those preferences any more. They are no longer hidden preferences, they are non-existant preferences. So it may be that the easy way is simply gone.
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