AlertDialog styling - how to change style (color) of title, message, etc

I've breaking my head over this quite a bit. What I need to do is, change the style of all AlertDialogs in my android application - dialog background needs to be white-ish, and text needs to be black-ish. I tried creating a lot of styles, themes, and applying from the code, manifest, etc, but no success, with regard to the text colors inside the AlertDialog. Right now, I have the simplest of codes, set like this:

Manifest:

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

styles.xml:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <item name="android:alertDialogStyle">@style/DialogStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="DialogStyle" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
    <!-- changing these background stuff works fine -->
    <item name="android:bottomBright">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:bottomDark">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:bottomMedium">@drawable/dialog_footer_bg</item>
    <item name="android:centerBright">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:centerDark">@drawable/dialog_body_bg</item>
    <item name="android:centerMedium">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:fullBright">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="android:fullDark">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="android:topBright">@color/green</item>
    <item name="android:topDark">@drawable/dialog_header_bg</item>

The items listed below don't work (please read the comme