That totally works! thank you so much!
The only thing that didn't work for me was powerlaunch. At the end of the install, app manager tells me it couldnt install, but then the program does seem to be there. It is listed in the 'installed packages' list, and I can run 'powerlaunch' from the teminal.
However, it doesnt seem to run. spits out some errors about something not running...

Anyway, I just uninstalled powerlaunch and added a new main menu item "Toggle Fullscreen" that runs that wmctrl command. Of course the only catch is that once I go fullscreen, I can't see the main app menu to toggle back, but I can either exit the fullscreen application, or hit the 'home' button. Though I noticed in Firefox, the 'home' hardware button does actually cause the broswer to navigate to 'home' instead of popping up that Hildon window. Oh well

Thanks!