how can I change the default shader color on startup

HI guys, my question is:
how can I change the default lambert1 shader color to be anyother than gray. for example I want it to be lightblue everytime I open maya.

I looked around all the setting but could not find it.

thanks

I' using maya 6

That would be maya-api I think. You could script it so you have an icon on your shelf so you do not hav to do it manually every time though.

Code would look like this:



After double3 you have three numbers. These are RGB 0-1 values. You simply replace them with the RBG values of your light Blue.
Hope that can be an acceptable substitute...