The DelMar alarm clock does appear to be what I was looking for. You can select the color of the numbers and background, making the background black and with the numbers a fairly dark color it will not light up the room. If you touch the screen the background will become bright white, thus acting as a night light. There is a sleep button that when pushed will play sound files, such as crashing waves, to help you sleep. Setting the alarm is very easy. The last piece of the puzzle came when I set up the following reg tweak:
http://pocketnow.com/thought/bringin...-touch-diamond
which allows me to manually rotate the screen to the correct orientation using the multimedia key. In the landscape orientation the clock numbers basically fill the entire screen. The only real drawback of the program is that the graphics are not that great, but and in the end, I don't need a lot of eye candy, just good functionality.