To go ahead and answer the question that usually follows this... To change the color of the highlight/selected text in the start menu go to "HKLM\System\GWE" and then select "syscolor" It is one long string of RGB values separated by 00's. The section pertaining to the start menu selection color is the 13th index in the list.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...stemColors.asp