I understand, I agree is not the best looking rom out there, but Im more concerned with functionality and performance over looks, personally I think the ICS home launcher that comes on the ics rom is horribly ugly, that's why I use adwEx launcher. I to had many, many issues with force closes, but fixing permissions from rom manager and rebooting always solved my problems, untill I learned this process: I start by doing a factory wipe/reset, then I put my phone in download mode and flash the stock recovery.tar with ODIN(which unroots the phone and returns it to the way it was when I first purchased it), next I reroot it, flash CWM recovery, then I flash the rom, that is a true full wipe. I'm going to take your word on nexusMOD and try it again, maybe I miss judge it. Does this rom get frequent updates? ICS is always getting new updates and optional mod to customize it more. I have added screen shot of my phone running the skyrocket ICS rom, Is this what it looked like on your phone?