Question about the Office 2003 toolbar and menus

[sam13484]

It's always been a bit of an irritant to me, that when MS comes out with a new Office version, they don't follow through with their work on the GUI. In 2003, for example, they changed the look of the main toolbars and the drop down menus, but left the dialog boxes with the grey 2000 styles. I have often wondered, if it's possible, to either update the look of those boxes, or better still, find a way to make the main toolbars and drop down menus revert back to the Office 2000 color and style?

I've found a few threads, in some forums, that show that you can find and extract the toolbar icons from the Office setup files, so I'm thinking, it's technically possible, but might require some work. Has anyone else given this any thought?

Any links to posts or sites that discuss this?

Thanks.