People will say different things, but in my experience I was getting flashed with the HID kit in the reflector housings. I tried lowering the beam but then light was becoming less useful so I switched to the '06 projector housings.
You can bake the OEM housings and open them up and paint black then reseal pretty easily instead of paying $100+ for new already black housings. There are several write-ups on the forum for that as well. I personally have done it four times now, three times to '03 housings and once to '06 housings.