How do I change the background color of the ActionBar of an ActionBarActivity using XML?

Details:

I’m extending ActionBarActivity.
Eclipse and SDK fully patched as of 2011-11-06.

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="14" />  

Deployed to Samsung device with Android 2.3.3
Application has android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Light"

Issue: application is light, but ActionBar is blue with grey icons, hardly visible against the blue background color. I also want the ActionBar to be light, so they grey icons are more visible.

I’ve tried modifying the styles but to no avail.
I’m probably missing something trivial.

How do I change the background color of the ActionBar of an ActionBarActivity using XML ?

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