Font in menu bar in CS5

The font is very light on the menu bar in CS5. However Bridge in CS5 is bold and easy to read (as is the menu in PS CS3). How do I adjust the appearance of the menu bar?
I would also like the gray color on the menu bar and tool bar and in the background of a picture to be lighter. In Bridge CS5 I can lighten the background to pictures and I would like this in Photoshop CS5.
Many thanks for help and suggestions.
Bob L

Marilynn,
Hopefully, you will not have to go far down this general list.
You may try the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps (the following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file; 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences):
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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