ITunes.rsrc Colored Icons

Hello all,
I recently upgraded to iTunes 10.1 and was annoyed to see that my "hacked" colored icons (if you don't know what I'm talking about, see http://obamapacman.com/2010/09/how-to-add-color-icons-apple-itunes-10-gray-sideb ar-mod/ ) had disappeared. They have disappeared with each new iTunes upgrade that I've installed. So I assume that each update includes the iTunes.rsrc file. Is there any Terminal command or anything I can do to keep the colored icons while still updating each version? Manually "hacking" the icons after each install is not an option for me.
Thanks in advance.

I've been putting that file in for the last few updates of iTunes... and now with the 10.1 version iTunes.rsrc causes a new problem on my iMac G5 running Leopard. The Podcast section is full of half weird symbols where the "playing indicator" icon should be. When playing back Music I get half of two symbols next to each other. I get the lower half of the correct "Speaker" icon and the upper half of a green play icon. Even that is better than grey icon... anyone else seen this problem? I'd be happy just to get the file working again.
Within minutes of seeing this I had written an enhancement request to Apple - I would encourage everyone to do that! http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
Apple - Please fix this!

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