Good Dr. ... I would like to recommend making these changes as part of your base ROMs:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=1673469
I have a .CAB for this that worked under SenseUI 2.0, but have had speed issues with the camera under 2.5, and manually applying these changes did fix it. I am generally "offline" and don't have access to my dev PC this week/weekend, so I'm not sure if the "Official Leo Camera Fix" even includes this, but the changes did help immensely. The camera feels like it did under the VZW ROM (with whatever tweak I applied to it) again.
I know you don't like to change the basic settings, and 99.9% of the time I agree with you, but I personally see no downside to this one. The camera works better under all circumstances for me with these settings in place. Your call, of course, and when I get home I can make myself a .CAB to do it if you disagree with me
Other than this and the perceived performance issue I have with the latest SYS and task switching, RC 1.1 has been essentially rock solid to date for me. If you're close to a "1.0", I would suggest going back to the previous SYS, though.