You know, I wonder how hard it would be to make a "menu-opaquifizer" that takes any theme and spits out a copy of it with the menu background mask set to totally opaque. Probably not hard, as presumably that would always be at a particular offset in the file... hmm...

Oh, also, I agree with the masses about the glossy variation -- I love it, it's awesome, but the menu item highlight is too striking. I think it might be a lot better if the dark lines were removed from the top and bottom, along with the entire thing being darkened up a bit.