Sounds like you've got a pretty good thing going, seems you've answered your own question. I mean, unless you absolutely have to have Aero Glass 
Ugh, just trying to change the background to a baby picture (background is unchangable in starter) I installed a souped up version of WindowBlinds called MyColors that broke the default windows them and made the toolbar look awful.
However, thing seem to actually be running faster under their theme-on-top of a theme, and it loks better than Starter Default, so I'm gonna just ignore it for now.
