Cool project, I played around with the CSS a little bit myself but didn't have as much time a I thought (running late right now) but I'll still show you what I came up with so far just so you can see an alternate perspective.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/U4uO8.png Color Scheme: http://i.imgur.com/6oUyx.png

If you like it and actually want to implement it, shoot me an email (proexploit[at]gmail.com) and I'll clean up the CSS and send it to you, this was all done in firebug and turned out messier than I intended.