Gauge Lighting is UGLY - any ideas?

I Love my '04, but aside from the obnoxious "TINK" driveshaft noise which confoundingly seems to be considered "normal" :skep (?!?!) the only other thing I think is unneccessarily pathetic in the SSR (but should be easily fix-able) is the gauge lighting at night.

The needles, at best, are a pale, sickly beige color. And all the backlit digits are an anemic almost-aqua. Even set to the brightest setting, the whole thing is dim and yawn-able. I think it's fair to say that for a car that kicks butt with it's "coolness factor" it's sad that nearly every other car on the road kicks it's interior butt at night. Even low-end VWs have better candy in the dash. The only thing that has any meat in the SSR dash lighting is the odometer and the stereo clock, and that's because those are exposed LEDs.

I have scoured the net looking for a handsome gauge face, or guage lighting kit that's made for the SSR- but like most other accessories- there isn't anything out there.

Has anyone else found the dull night gauges annoying/ho hum- and anyone done anything about it?

Thanks!