Maybe a little more blue in the gray
Thats not a bad idea actually, it's actually just what it needs.. usually I'd put a little blue in my blacks and greys, didn't here yet. Nice one Doc.
The blue reminds me of some of Tiggz's Omni stuff in a weird way
me too sorta, part of the reason I'd like to change it.
Is there any chance the windows and task buttons could be more....metallic, or would that be too much?
I'd like to, will try but the less surface area there is the harder it is to get reflections and such inside the image.. especially on the titlebuttons, so if i was able to make the taskbuttons more reflective, then they wouldn't match the smaller titlebuttons. 
The start menu and frames have far more real estate in this regard.
so all in all, like I said, quite a challenging WB so far, back to work on it after a good nights sleep 
