One down, one to go? Steve Miner somehow managed to figure out how to disable the translucent menu bar. He posted a solution that involved editing a system-level plist, and then commenter Krioni came up with a one-line Terminal command.

I actually found the reworked menubar a bit too bright -- it's literally just a white bar, lacking the subtle 10.4 gradient. That then led me to stumble on Peter Maurer's new Menu Bar Tint, which adds back the gradient (and even lets you go wild with a completely different color scheme, if you wish -- just remember that the stock colors are all full-black, at 0%, 4%, and 10% opacity levels). That's my menu bar above, with Menu Bar Tint running to provide the gradient.
Now if someone just figures out how to make those menus solid again...

