[MrGoodtunes]

Welp, tried Hitman theme, got black background in large start menu, but... I have my own fave Today Screen background, a pic. And when I checked "Use this picture as the background," the large start menu (and only the large start menu) went right back to that damn'd sea blue! To make a short story long, your help actually did lead to the fix, because it got me thinking outside the bun. Turns out my pic was a BMP, apparently too big of a file size or file type, causing the large start menu to default to standard Windows Mobile blue theme (which is strange, considering that the HTC charcole theme was active). Anyway, all's well that ends well, and this problem ended up being solved by simply converting my Today background pic to JPG. Many thanks, T M Z, for sticking with me on this thread.