Why no built in support to change toolbar colors, sizes etc...?

I would like to modify the colors and contrast of windows boarder. Especially in Safari the tabs are very dark and I don't want to turn the brightness up and kill my battery sooner. I find no built in support for modifying windows themes or colors. If there is a 3rd party app that I could use to tweak these things while not destabilizing a speedy and extremely stable OSX 10.7.3 on Intel i7?
I'm not really board with the default Apple scheme, I've been a linux user for years and use a very similar scheme or theme and windows manager. But the dark tabs on Safari are a big annoyance.
Thank's for any insight.

Haven't installed a host file addition yet then?
That blocks your computer from accessing the "crap" of the internet.
You need these things:
1: A free copy of TextWrangler from BareBones
2: TextEdit open
3: Select all copy everything on this page (bookmark it)
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
4: Paste into Text Edit and remove the lines
127.0.0.1  localhost
::1  localhost #[IPv6]
5: Do a find and replace for all instances of 127.0.0.1 and replace with 0.0.0.0
6: Select all and copy
7: Open TextWrangler and file by name /etc/hosts
Do not touch what you see there, just add some spaces at the bottom and paste
8: Save the file with your Admin password
Done, you have just blocked the crap of the Internet
9: update just that portion you added every couple of months from the same source.
note: the file is designed for Windows, so all you want is the sites to block to work with Mac,
like
127.0.0.1  fr.a2dfp.net
also because of a glitch you need to change 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 to work with OS X better.
anything with a "#" in front means to "ignore this line" to the computer, so those lines are safe to copy and use.

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