My issue with the white dialer background seems to have cleared up. I'm not sure when it happened as I loaded a few apps today, but it is working again. It may have been when I loaded the vista aurora theme, but I'm not sure...
On a side note, I didn't get an answer to my question about changing to the crossbow dialer. Is there a way to do this without reflashing? How about if I wanted to load one of the other dialers? (I really like some of the ones on
http://www.paulya.com/).