Please allow ability to globally turn off font smoothing!

Apple,
I sit in front of Windows PC's for 8 hours a day as an engineer. I grew up on macs, and I have a 17" Macbook Pro High Def at home. I have really tried to get used to the font smoothing settings (i've tried all of them) but I still prefer the non anti-aliased look (ie off).
I've tried to find a way to globally disable this in OSX but I can't. The only thing that I have found is the following command in the terminal application:
defaults write -g AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 128
This works for 90% of the stuff I work in. Most Safari pages are not anti-aliased after I do this step and they look great. There are still a few pages that use anti-aliased fonts (apple.com) but I can live with it.
Apple, please provide a way to disable anti-aliasing system wide, and for an option to change the fonts to something other than Lucinda Grande.
thanks,
Jeff

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