emacs 22 grep without the glare?

[Tom Horsley]

In trying to make grep and compile look less like an
explosion in a paint factory, I added a hook to turn off
font-lock mode in compile buffers (emacs 22).

Apparently this multi-colored, underlined, blinding
insanity is so tied into grep, that if I disable font
lock, it also disables the next-error function.

Any way to reduce the glare and still have grep work?
Perhaps find a bunch of faces and redefine them to
display identically to "normal" text?