OSX Color Labels -- Visual Implementation

What do people think of how Color Labels are implemented in OSX -- coloring the file name and the whole area around it?
I'm finding this a bit too noticeable/distracting (in contrast to OS9 where sometimes you couldn't see the colors at all on a custom icon).
I'm thinking maybe a colored stroke around the icon would be better (though that might be awkward if icons can have transparent edges?).
Or maybe the filename could have just a thin outline around it (like the current look when you highlight a Color Labeled file, but even thinner) -- and then when you select the file, the whole name turns that color as the highlight.
And yes I would like to be able to edit the color shades too.
And I'll be horrified if, as I read in another post, color labels can get forgotten by OSX. Hope that gets fixed soon as sometimes I use color labels for really important meanings. OSX better not forget the way I position file icons inside a folder as well (one of things that make Windows so gross IMO) or I'm ruined. Which images go with that blue HTML file? Why the blue ones aligned nicely below it in the folder of course.
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Have just noticed activity monitor is indicating very unusual activity in something called "TruBlueEnvironment", whatever that is. It is currently accounting for over 95% of CPU activity, and these spikes may be the cause of the beachballs appearing at rather odd times.
For anyone who knows what this may be all about, here are some current stats from the Activity Monitor:
Threads: 15
Ports: 227
Context Switches: 3994556 and going up rapidly
Faults: 19059 (and stationary)
Page Ins: 2245 (and stationary)
Mach Messages In: 56585 and going up fast
Mach Messages Out: 122817 and going up fast
Unix System Calls: 80243 and going up
Can anyone give me some guidance on all of this?
Thanks-
0db

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