If you just wanted to change the dock?
 

I really like the dock from Launcher Pro and a few others, but I hate losing the default "favorites" people list, the default 4g, wi-fi, GPS, ect buttons. Just in general I like everything about the regular default UI or whatever it's called except that dock. I'd prefer the phone just be another icon, same with the " all apps" button and "add to home" button. I don't like that it takes up the whole bottom of the screen in the manner that it does. It's hard to find a good wallpaper that goes with the bottom of the image being cut off like that.

Can anyone suggest a way to just take out that default dock, but leave everything else the same?

Thanks