[Speed_419]

Ok, let me start by saying that I was wrong to call it "gay." I have a cousin that is homosexual and he is a cool dude so please don't think that I am ripping on a class of people. To be honest, he was the one that said it looked "gay" so I was just using his terminology. My most significant concern over the phone is that I am business man and I feel that a more conservative looking phone would have been better than blue.
Secondly, what I am really concerned about is actual use-ability. I was wondering if there was a reason that they might have changed the shell and buttons. Maybe the Sprint version has button problems after X number of presses or something. I would be interested to know about that, although it would seem that the Sprint version is the newer version so Verizon's phone is the outdated one even though it took them almost 6 months to release the darn thing. The direction button on the Verizon version doesn't seem to be as nice as the Sprint.
Third, if I didn't like the Verizon version, could I get a Sprint or Alltel version off of eBay or whatever and flash the ROM so that I could use it with Verizon?

Thanks all for the comments so far, and I loved the metro sexual comment. I definitely was LOL when I read that one...