I was using the old velious UI from these forums, which all in all I actually like better than this. The main reason? It didn't have the shiny grey texture for buttons.
This is what the buttons looked like on live
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/629/eq000051.jpg
This is what they look like here
http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/520/eq002683.png
Unfortunately this texture also affects the character select screen, so instead of the classic button texture for characters, everything looks borked. Is there a fix for this?