font-lock woes

[K. Richard Pixley]

I find font-lock modes to be illegible and highly annoying.  Is there 
any way I can turn them off, completely, across the board, entirely, 
throughout my emacs?

(global-font-lock-mode 0) doesn't seem to work.  I have it in my 
.emacs.el and I'm setting it manually and still when I visit a new file, 
or any of a number of popup buffers arrive, they still have illegible 
font-lock color settings.

--rich