Highlight color of Places Finder items

Why is it when you change your appearance and highlight color to "Graphite", the highlight color of items in the Finder "Places" sidebar remains "epileptic fit" blue?

Unfortunately it's not possible yet...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3962330?tstart=30
Srry

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I have the same problem as mumbles (in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2257163&#2257163): When I do Find in Safari and look for a word, it highlights the search term in a very light blue that I can barely see. — Just that I don't want to have the highlight color set to, say, strong red systemwide, since this is useful with the find command on a web page, but bothersome in all other cases. Is there a way to change this in Safari only? (I'm afraid there isn't, for it seems tied to the system, but maybe I'm as wrong here as I often am … )
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