Hate Lion grey icons, want to get back colored icons

Just switched (a test on a seperate HD) to Lion. Like most people I use customised colored Icons as part of navigating quuickly. In the sidebare it is all boringly gray.
I seen some of the discussions about this hot topic but found no permanaet solutions. Anybody know any?

I also wanted colours back!!
I got this from a colleague: go to http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/get-color-sidebar-icons-back-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lio n-finder-windows/
These are the steps:
Download and install SIMBL, which you can get here
Download the ColorfulSidebar SIMBL plugin (direct link) or visit the developers home and mount the DMG file
Move the ColorfulSidebar.bundle into the following SIMBL plugin folder:
~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
Either login and logout of Mac OS X, or just kill the Finder through the Terminal to relaunch it:
killall Finder
Works like a charm, I'm a happy -colourful- Maccer again!

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