Theming

So I'm theming my Motorola Cliq. Made some custom images in Fireworks, and also used the Kitchen. Now I'm working on the MMS.apk. It seems I got 1/2 of it themed, all my outgoing texts have the new background color but the incoming are still black LOL. I also gtg back into framework-res.apk and edit some xml files to change the text for the dropdown bar (or whatever its called)

Anyhow this is what I've got so far... ngiordano is helping me on simply android... my fav site

I didn't realize I can't pull systemUI.apk down to edit after it's already edited :-( its all good though cause I have the original edited one (does that make sense) on my laptop so I can use that one. I need to decompile and edit the xml file to change the default text color on the bar up top. As can be seen above, the text is white and the background is light green so its like impossible to see the text!! Its a WIP but I plan on uploading it to Simply Android when completed...if only I could figure how to edit those darn .9 images!!!!!!! They kept messing up my phone all weekend... had to re-install my ROM several times!