Headers and tabs are almost illegible in default Dell theme on Win7

I have a Dell Studio XPS laptop, Win7 64-bit, 1920 * 1080 screen. It uses the default Dell theme, of which I think the key item in reproducing this issues is the 'Frost' Window Color, with Transparency on.
On the FF4 Beta 5, and the Beta 4 before it, this affects not just the very top line of the screen (Title Bar? - the one with the min/max/X buttons on it, anyway), but also the FF headers, down to and including the tabs.
They appear as dark gray (except for the one currently selected tab), the screen behind shows through quite a bit, and they are very hard to see and to read.
No other software I have does this except on the title bar, AFAIR.
I tried altering the Control Panel/Personalization settings, and I can get something that makes FF4 usable, but it's not as nice as the default Dell theme, and affects every screen I use. I don't want to do that just because FF4, alone, needs it.
Accordingly, for now, I've gone back to FF3.6.9; that has the semi-transparent Title Bar, which is fine, and legible headers/tab lines whose colours seem to be FF-chosen, and which are opaque, and nicely readable, on the default Dell theme.
So: is this FF4 transparent headers/tabs a mistake;
or a design decision that happens to interact badly with my Dell theme;
or something customisable in FF4 in someplace I don't know where to find it?
All help gratefully received.

No different in Beta 6, alas.

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