thanks, everything is running great. very smooth and fast. I was able to use metamorph and the battery mods to change the battery icon to the clean battery. Not ideal but like it better since the percentage is not accurate anyway. It doesnt appear to have broken anything so that's good! Here's a sshot. Really liking this rom.
in case anyone is interested, here is the link to the battery mods:
[MetaMorph] Battery Projects (8/13/2010) - xda-developers