what you can do is take a screen shot and crop it to fit 240 x 320 px then put it in the theme (use a sony theme editor or lysic theme editor for this)

Any way to disable the animation on this one? I love everything, but the spinning record is very distracting.

flash menus are animated menu screens. There is an animation that moves across the high lighted item in a .swf or flash format. To unlock your phone, I suggest using wotan server to do it. You have to pay 11 dollars canadian to use it, but it is fool proof. Just follow the instructions there on the website. Most wireless providers block certain phone properties and extras (like applying mp3 ringtones or flash menus) so they can profit from getting you to use their products that you download to your phone. flashing the phone (using wotan server or something similar) will take off the blocks so you can get more out of your phone.