This is awesome guys!
I couldn't call myself a 'mac fanboy', but back in the day 7.5 and 8 OS's were pleasantly fast and rarely did I ever see a bomb(crash). A lot of the office abilities were already well done and I lived next to COREL.
I'm just an informed user newb, but I had to put in my kudos to you guys for this endeavour.

Keep in mind as well, there was also a great tool for interface customizing called "Kaleidoscope" than ran clean in the OS. It allowed for a large array of modifications to the windows etc.

http://kaleidoscope.net/schemes/schemespotlight.shtml
Boilerplate had been my favorite of all time.

Anyone need an original OS? I may even have ol 7.5->8.5 in home storage somewhere.