Hi CareTake,
as I wrote, we're already considering adding more "background options" (see the list in my previous post).
But once again, please note that's not *us* who decided that the selection color should be "dull grey"... that's a definition in your theme.
As it is now, we just used the color that's defined by the theme to show an active/selected item.
I guess all your other plugins use the same color when they are active/selected.
One final note for people using UL.
I personally spent quite some time yesterday playing around with UL version 1.2 (English), and actually it seems that Face Contact never shows the solid selection color when used within UL (this was also reported by Jomo25 in the XDA-Developers thread).
Anyway, thanks everybody for your feedback and ideas.