What happened to color in Lion's G.U.I.????!!!!

Why are System Preferences in color yet iTunes and the rest of Lion is in 1980's monochrome?
Those of us who have used a Mac from the begining have lost patience with Apple's idea of 200 new features when they take away so many good ones?
Since when is color not in the G.U.I.? Why did I encourage all these folks to buy Macs for the last 28 years!!!!?? This is the one of the worst moves to damage a great timesaver... but someone is thinking different not inteligently... anyone else out there feel this way? 

Tom in London wrote:
You need to get one thing straight: everything Apple does is, ipso facto, totally amazing. So you can now mark this problem as solved.
That helps a lot Tom. But thanks for your intelligent input, I am sure it has helped the OP out with their query. You seem to be very bitter towards Apple and yet continue to post your negativity everywhere in these forums, usually with little relevance to the questions asked and the issues raised. But if it reassures you about your inability to keep up with technology then we are all happy for you.
Now back to the OP. The workarounds spoken about include
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/get-color-sidebar-icons-back-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lio n-finder-windows/
and
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39654/lion-tweaks
as a couple of examples. They are hacks, so I don't know if you have to turn them back on after each reboot, but apparently they will color your world again.
Good Luck
Pete

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