hmm ...
I am not good with gfx stuff, but that wasn´t the major boundrie ! Jelsoft will change their template system with version 3 of Vbulletin, and this new template system was not included in the beta version we were using.
So doing massive changes to the design wouldn´t make any sense, since soon the template wouldn´t be usable with the final version of VBB, but as now the gamma release of VBB comes with the new template engine, I guess we will upgrade to this version and then change the design to our needs !
Cheers