Well RADO certainly eases some of the pain for me. I did another mix in the alpha and the graphics were much easier to work with. I do still feel there's not enough contrast in the send amount color differences and I have to lean WAY in (in most themes) to see the little notch on the send dial. I also wouldn't object to a modified version of RADO with skinnier fader caps.
Great theme though. Here's a screenie of the mix session and the mp3 rough mix. I also did a (private link) YouTube vid of the mix but it's not up yet.
MP3:
Seed by Snowflake (no bass track yet)
Screenie (1680x1050):
Mix Snapshot
P.S. I kinda wonder why, as relates to the lameenc.dll, Reaper couldn't just point to the same single instance somewhere rather than having to copy it to every install directory to render mp3. I also don't particularly like all mixer meters being "dual", even for mono tracks. When you mix in the full mixer it's really hard to know which tracks are being fed by stereo audio tracks. A mono meter is pretty typical for mono audio tracks.