I'm not sure why this forum would take so long to load. I just clicked reply and it loaded in about 10 seconds. Weird...
I was referring to additional customization, but then realized that not everyone may be comfortable with using Bitpim and getting into the system files on their phone.
Using Bitpim, I have replaced the first two animations in the wallpaper folder with "flash clocks", meaning clock wallpaper that is Flash based. It has a background and a clock that pulls time data from the onboard settings (does NOT use data over the network). If you Google "LG Dare flash clocks", you should find examples of what I am talking about.
I guess it's just me then on the forum being slow issue.
I have heard about BitPim and flash-clocks and stuff on the Dare forum. I might do something like that eventually, but for now since the phone is brand new, I don't want to take any chances on messing anything up just yet. But maybe eventually I will.