Originally posted by Shadowfax
hmmm. well, my issue is not that i hate brushed metal. i love it on iChat, iTunes, and so forth. iTunes in particular would be horrible in regular aqua. iChat is reaonable without metal, but it's better in brushed metal for sure. i just think safari is far to big to do in brushed metal. i much prefer the aqua look. of course, i use the graphite theme on OS X and am much more into grayscale....
have you not tried themes? they have some pretty nice 3rd party theme programs and some cool themes, from milk white to system wide brushed metal to windows XP's look. i don't use them, but i have tried several. it's pretty stable.