Hey no worries, I got it to work just fine.
I was using the main original black theme/skin. The problem was that i wasn't sure if a comm manager was included, so I didn't add one (wanted to lessen the already 100 overwrite warnings I'm getting).
Then the main settings tab/widget was completely blank. Once I added in a comm manager though, and reflashed, everything seems to be working pretty good
Thanks!
also, just for future reference, it would appear that large start menu is included
Thanks again.