Did you try disabling the e17 keyboard and/or hildon keyboard?
Anyway, I'm hoping to get a better version of e17-data posted soon with a working keyboard of it's own.
I'd recommend the B_and_W theme which you can get from gnome-look.org as a theme. Also, you could try alternative menu building apps to gnome-menu. It's just one that I knew worked. There's on called "menu" and a few others that do the same thing. Maybe one won't have the dependency problems.
Edit: It looks like you had to install a verson of eet from the ubuntu repos. Could this be part of the problem? Maybe the version of eet I put in isn't working or is missing some packages? Either way, I'm in the process of adding a building a new version and it should be uploaded to the mer repos soon!
*Out of curiosity: Did you have problems with the backgound having sort of "lines" going across them? I had this problem with these packages in my install, but I'm not sure what caused it. The background wallpaer should be a smooth gradient.