Ugh, I couldn't agree more. We bought a bunch of them and started replacing bulbs in the house with them. I hate them. We've spent a lot of time and money on furniture, paintings, house paint, etc. all to make our home look the way we want it to. Screw one of these POS flourescent bulbs in and no matter how nice a paint colour the wall is, it looks like a frickin morgue. I too have tried all the different colours available. Washed-out white, nauseous green and autopsy-table blue.
We're a pretty green family - quite energy conscious, not wasteful, separate all our recyclables, compost, throw out 1 or 2 grocery bags of garbage a week, etc. (mostly to ease my conscious about my 72 911 with badly tuned carbs coughing up a cloud of poison gas every time she starts up
) but I'm not using any more flourescent bulbs. If they can make one that doesn't make me look dead when I stand under it, ok then, but until then, forget it.