Serious accessibility regression in Acrobat 9 UI, low constrast black toolbars

I've been evaluating whether to upgrade to Acrobat 9, or stay with Acrobat 8. Acrobat 9 fixes a Javascript auto-crash code segment I want to use in a PDF Form my business uses (the PDF currently coaches the users do a less user friendly workaround in Acrobat 8). I see in Acrobat 9, Adobe reworked the interface. Form editing is now modal to my displeasure. Even worse, there are these garish candy Vista-ish black low contrast tool and side bar. So I turned on accessible colors through Control Panel->Display->Appearance Tab->Color Scheme Drop-down List->High Constrast White. I use the Windows 2000 interface, not the blue XP interface. In Acrobat 8, it obeyed the accessible color scheme, as shown in the attached screenshots. In Acrobat 9, it ignores them (see attachments). Adobe claims Acrobat 9 follows legal/regulatory/industry accessibility compliance at http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/compliance/acrobat_9_508.html#softwaredetails and at http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/acrobat/faq.html#q7 . I see no way of getting rid of the white on black low contrast toolbars/sidebars in Acrobat 9. The method that worked in Acrobat 8, doesn't in Acrobat 9. I see nothing in the release notes for 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, or 9.1.3 about accessibility, so I assume this bug exists in later versions. Am I doing something wrong in changing the UI colors of Acrobat 9, or Adobe dropped the ball on this issue?
Versions details:
Windows XP SP2, Acrobat 9.0.0 Pro
Windows XP SP3, Acrobat 8.1.0 Pro

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