Appearances - TextLabel unalterable

XP HOME on 3GB DDR 400, Athlon X2, GeForce 8600 GT

I've been working on making my system a dark theme via the appearance panel.

However, certain parts of the GUI seem unalterable: Text Label items (at

least, that is what they'd be reffered to as in VB). So, the background of a

window will be dark, and there will be a nice little section/container

present without the ability to change its text color from black, hence making

the dark background unusable. Is there a way around this? (ie. registry,

changing the msstyle file, etc)... see image:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/images/t36511/trouble.jpg