International panel number format

In the International panel of the System Preferences I would like to set the number format but there is no customise button.
I would like to achieve the following combination, all of which are crucial to the operation of some applications:
*main language:* English, then French, then Dutch then German.
*names of the days of the week and months of the year*: in English
*date format:* YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2008-06-24)
*time format:* HH:MM:SS 24-hour clock (e.g. 23:36:34)
*number format:* 1'234.56
currency: euro
*measurement system:* metric.
If anyone can do this, please tell me how!
The customise button for numbers disappeared already in Tiger and this problem has never been fixed to my knowledge.

Answer obtained: you have to wait for Snow Leopard, but in the meantime you can set the format by terminal command:
defaults write -g AppleICUNumberSymbols -dict-add 1 \'
defaults write -g AppleICUNumberSymbols -dict-add 17 \'
The numbers are:
0 -- decimal separator for numbers .
1 -- thousands separator for numbers '
2 -- number formats ¤ #,##0.00;¤ -#,##0.00
4 -- starting character for numbers; for example, if you set the value to a, instead of numbers 0-9 you will see characters a-j (well, this is not that useful!).
8 -- currency symbol €
10 -- decimal separator for currency .
17 -- thousands separator for currency '

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