As for code pieces completed based upon feedback:

Between myself Kotzcarny and crashanddie we are streamlining the development process and now have trunk and branch folders in the svn (as much as it throws my personal configuration out), and we are gearing up to the next major push.

restored the logging to areas where I had removed due to flooding myself over ssh. these areas are where I am loading custom images, and need to test and identify reasons for image loading failures.

added a few extra preferences around the place.

implemented the graffiti zooming correctly now and it responds to zoom +-

been preparing to centralize the style settings and have a plan for replacing the boxes with proper works of art

I have applied for a doofer to get this uploaded to extras-devel so it can be installable correctly.

So far, thanks a lot for your support guys and your feedback has been invaluable.