I don't know why I never tried this before, but going through the advanced Appearanced setting in the display dialogue (where you select .msstyle files) and using either LucidaMAC or LucidaMAC Bold for almost everything makes every visual style look 100% better!
Before, I was trying DesktopX/Samurize/AveDesk to pretty much just get the look from using fonts that antialias well on their own. Wow.
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