This might be more work than you want to do, but there's a surefire way to fix that verizon logo and any other graphic that annoys you. Basically you learn how to put custom graphics on the phone using CFC-GUI. It's a little work but once you get it, it's easy and you can make everything look exactly the way you want.
Guide is here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=88077
In a nutshell:
- copy (Not move!) all the files that are named XXXXXXXX_manila (no extension) from your windows folder to a folder on your computer. Let's call it TP2files. The X's will be sorta random letters and numbers, e.g. 2255a6fd_manila. It's normal for it to take a long time to view the contents of \windows, it might have 9000ish files in there, and there are over 2000 manila files. Sort them by extension on your computer so you can easily highlight them all and copy.
- Download and install cfc-gui:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470798
You'll need to register to get the attachment on that post. It's worth it.
Select folder - choose the TP2files folder where you copied all those manila files. It'll scan them all for a while. Now you'll see a long list of image files on the left, and a preview of each image on the right.
- Find the verizon logo in the list on the left. It should be in there somewhere, probably under "other" at the bottom. It helps to know the size of the logo. Unfortunately the size of the image might be larger than the size on screen, and the phone just crops part of it. Looks like it's about 64 pixels wide though so I'd look at all the 64x__ sized images.
- Once you find it, fire up photoshop or some other image editor. Make a new file whose size matches the size of the logo (so if it turns out it was a 64x64, that's what your new file should be). Save it as a .png filetype. Now you just need to make it 100% transparent. In photoshop you'd go to the layers palette on the right, right click the background layer, convert to a regular layer, then ctrl+A to select everything, tap delete on the keyboard. Save it somewhere (doesn't need to be with your TP2 files).
-Back in cfc-gui, highlight that verizon logo (the manila file on the left that shows the verizon logo on the right) and click the replace with button at the bottom right. Choose the transparent PNG you made. Takes just a second to convert.
What you've just done is modify ONE of those 2000 manila files. The specific file will be named in CFC-GUI... just look under the preview window where it gives info about the file. The name of the file is listed after "image". Let's say it's 6677134D_manila.
- Browse to your tp2files directory and use the windows search function to search for, say, 66771 ...that should be enough to narrow the search down to one result. Highlight that one file and copy it to your phone. But you want to copy it onto the storage card, not directly to the windows folder. Then get on your phone and fire up file explorer (or you might need total commander... install it, it's worth it). Find that _manila file and now move it to your windows folder. Windows will ask if you want to overwrite the original file. Choose yes. To see the result, you need to restart manila. You can just soft reset your phone, or a slightly faster way (for me anyway) is to go to the setting where you can change your home tabs. Add or remove any tab and it will restart manila.
That verizon logo will be gone (replaced with a nice transparent .png ...maybe later you could replace it with a custom image of your choice. And you can start playing with other stuff like the clock, the tab icons, etc.