That looks awesome IrishVixen! Sorry it took a little bit to reply, I just got home from work
1) The tutorial works for both app store icons and cydia icons. instead of resizing the image to 118 or 120, resize them to 114.
2) Usually 8pt is fine. Sometimes for whatever reason my fonts will end up a different size for different images in photoshop. So for one image, 8pt is fine, but i'm stuck using 18pt for others. Basically it should fit in the black bar without look too small, but it shouldn't expend past the black bar at all.
3) I haven't decided what I want to do with folders yet. Part of me wants to go with the folder icons route, but i'm still not 100% yet.
4) Good call. I've been meaning to do something with the calendar icon text. Do you prefer having it show the date or no? I haven't decided if I want to remove it completely.
And Thank you for telling braddick how to install the theme manually. Once I get all of the kinks worked out I'm going to release it on cydia.