Thanks for the reply Perfect Storm! Although it's not what I want to hear, at least it saves me some time unlocking these vendor themes.
I can't make it out clearly but I noticed on your avatar, you have the 8300/8800 Tmobile Zen theme or something similar on a 8700. Is that correct? How did you managed to do that? I was told it's not possible. Would you mind sharing your secrets?
If it's not the Zen theme, what custom theme is that? Would you mind posting it? I've been looking for something like this where there only a few icons on the bottom. I find this to be the cleanest looking theme.
TIA!