Font is blurry on dark background.

Hey everyone,
I'm experiencing very annoying trouble out here. My font rendering is kind of blurry when it comes to dark backgrounds. Here's a screenshot using Swyphs II color theme. My rendering is on the top of the screenshot, author's is at the bottom, after the red line.
http://berkana18.com/screen.jpg
This behavior is everywhere, where I have light text on dark background (excluding images of course).
Font smoothing in system perferences is set to 'Automatic', and i'm on Leopard, 23" ACD. Changing font-smoothing option does not affect it at all.
Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks in Advance.
Aleksandr.

Hi don jao;
No. There is not.
About the only way to send something directly to Apple is to use
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Allan

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