A number of users have had problems with the CCSM application because of bugs. You can however change theme colors without it, there are three files you need to edit.
/usr/share/themes/{theme name}/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/{theme name}/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
/usr/share/themes/{theme name}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
In the beginning of these files you'll find 4 pairs of core foreground and background colors used in applications based on the gtk 2 and gtk 3 libraries. Pair base_color and text_color are used for the document or text entry portions of windows where bg_color and fg_color are are used for the windows area where icons and labels are displayed. Selected pair is for selected text and the tooltip pair is used for the tips that pop up when you hover over a button or link. These colors may be applied by applications with varying opacity or shadings. The color of text in buttons comes from the fg_color. These sets of labels appear in all three files so I've been changing all three to be the same for any label I change. Here's an example of what I changed in the gtk.css file in the Ambiance theme.
/* default color scheme */
@define-color bg_color #cdc3b8;
@define-color fg_color #262626;
@define-color base_color #accdff;
@define-color text_color #262626;
@define-color selected_bg_color #01b9fc;
@define-color selected_fg_color #ffffff;
@define-color tooltip_bg_color #A3D0FF;
@define-color tooltip_fg_color #023C79;
To change the orange color the one yo need to edit is the selected_bg_color. In my example I've gone after a shade of aqua. Having made this change you'll still have the orange color used for the close buttons on the title bar. To change those you'll need to edit the icons used. In the same folder where you found the gtk-2.0 and gtk3.0 folders you'll see a unity and a metacity-1 folder which contain the icons you'll want to recolor. In the unity folder change close.png, close_focused_normal.png, closed_focused_prelight.png and close_focused_pressed.png. You'll notice that icons have different shade of orange for indicating things like hover. You'll want to use similar shade variations of whatever color you choose. Once these are changed you can copy all four to the metacity-1 folder where they will have the same names.
You'll want to save your updated theme in case these themes are updated and therefore changed back to original colors.