User blog comment:Meighan/Thoughts, Feedback & Fixes Around the Admin Dashboard Rollout/@comment-1361074-20110817163939

I have "a good solution" right now for theming, use the one the "active content maintainers" choose in your theme designer. If you start there and then add all the corporate "consistency" you want, maybe everything wouldn't be broken for weeks on end. See? That wasn't so hard at all.