Yeah but we all know what he is going through. When I got on here few weeks ago I went through the same frustrating crap, but I expected that, been on forums for a while. The thing is there is a bunch of functions that need to be added to the phone and no one says how to install applications on the phone. Everyone assumes people who got a PPC yesterday just know. Not to mentions there are various copy's now and revisions. I got hit the other day with a wtf because of version number confusions sent me backwards.
So out of being nice here is my few pointers.
1st. Search!
2. xda-developers.com
Fully working ready to go flash vista theme cube.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=350011
This will not give you system wide flowtouch.
For flow touch view
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=338143
get 1.0 and patch it to 1.4.1
If you want to go from the ground up start here.
try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358102
To install a cab copy it with active sync to the device and open it with the device. Good luck