[JimP]

That SPB shell thing does have a free trial period so you can play with it and see if its to your liking. If you don't like it, you just go to remove programs and remove it. Soft boot and its like it was never there. IMO, less prone to breaking something else. If you read enough post from this site, it seems that some of these ROMs break things and to get them working again, you have to reflash to the original ROM. Since I'm not sure that the original ROM has the same built as the one that I've got in the phone (1 month old) I'm not comfortable loosing the original ROM. As far as I know, there's no way to save the original. So for me, it was either a shell or nothing.

What I found was that I was wanting a better user interface, not necessarily replacing the operating system. The SPB shell was interesting, but I didn't care for the style of the clock and weather readings on the home page. I know that those are changable, but I didn't want to start digging around to do that.

There is another shell that someone was working on that hasn't been released yet that I thought would be better. I don't know if they're still working on it or not.

Apparantly, if Verizon does release windows mobile 6.5, it'll also have a new user interface which includes widgets on the home page that'll do what I want.