Month view colors in iCal 5 vs iCal 4

I have a MacBook running 10.7.4 and a iMac running 10.6.8. I just found out a way (http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111014102515403) to see my shared calendar on iCloud from the older iCal app on the iMac and was astounded at the differences in the two versions of iCal and how they looked side-by-side, looking at the exact same data. The colors on the older versionof iCal are far superior to the Lion's version. I have read many threads concerning dissatisfaction with the new iCal and requesting Apple development folks to fix it. Let me add my voice to the thundering crowd!