UIWebView youtube video responding to UIAppearance - ios5

i'm starting to get really frustrated...
first MFMessageComposeViewController and MFMailComposeViewController were inheriting the UIAppearance changes I was making to my view controller...
I finally sorted that out by subclassing my navigationController and containing my UIAppearance changes to the custom navigationController's class...
But now I have the problem all over again with a youtube video in my uiwebview. once again i have a subclassed viewController and i'm using appearanceWhenContainedIn:myViewController, but the youtube video appears to be contained within my custom view controller....
this is really starting to bug me. apple explicitly says to not customize these views, in the case of the youtube video, i'm not even using mpmovieplayer its just right out of uiwebview... i really don't want to have to drop the whole mpmovieplayer framework into my project just to set nil values for uiappearance for this class...
and even if i do that, i'm unsure how to get the default titletextattributes to reapply them....
Why are these views responding to uiappearance in the first place? shouldn't apple have explicitly disallowed them from inheriting uiappearance changes?
please if anybody has advice let me know

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In the docs for MFMessageComposeViewController apple says:
Important The message composition interface itself is not customizable and must not be modified by your application.
But navigationbar and barbuttonitems in the MFMessageComposeViewController and the MFMailComposeViewController are inheriting all the styling I've done through UIAppearance.
I tried to revert to default appearance by using UIAppearance containment and setting the navigationbar/barbuttonitem background images to nil, but I couldn't figure out how to restore the default titleTextAttributes for the navigationbar and barbuttonitem.
I tried going the other route and using containment to restrict the styling to my navigation controller, but it seems like MFMessageComposeViewController and MFMailComposeViewController are contained within my navigaton controller anyway, so this isn't helping.
So my questions are:
1) will changing the navbar appearance on MFMessageComposeView and MFMailComposeView be an issue at app store approval? (if it's not an issue I can keep the custom styles.)
2) is there a way to present the ComposeViewController so that it won't be contained within my navigation controller?
3) or simply, how can i restore the default title text attributes for the barButtonItems and navigationBar?
It seems to be a rather old question, but:
1). No, changing appearance of navigation bar will not affect AppStore approval. Mentioned Apple note is related to fields of MFMessageComposeViewController (e.g. To: Cc: ...), not the navigation bar. (We had an approved app with such customized navbar)
2, 3) No need for that =)

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