iTunes windows are white on black after upgrade to 10.7

Question

It's easier to show than tell – see this screenshot:

Here's what I have already looked into:

• Preferences: no settings that (seem to) apply here;

• Universal Access: in particular, "Assistive Devices" – my first thought was that I had inadvertently used a keyboard shortcut that triggered this mode which is in fact an option under Assistive Devices

• Deleted & Reinstalled iTunes: including the cache, temporary files in
  ~/Library/Application Support and ~/Library/iTunes

I have also surfed the Apple Support forums, and indeed, there are several posts about this, but all of them unanswered.

Answer 1

It looks like you have High Contrast Mode switched on for iTunes. To switch this off, quit iTunes and type the following in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes high-contrast-mode-enable -bool no

or alternatively:

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes high-contrast-mode-enable

Then restart iTunes...