Yes, I am a nerd.
I've been tooling around with AIM and replaced its picture with a quick little image that I came up with. If this is something that people would be interested in, I'm sure the much-more-talented-than-me Summo would be happy to create a better 190x150 .gif. I could then distribute the AIM update for all to use.
I am also looking into creating an AIM theme for thewarpath as well. Lemme know what you guys think so that I can decide whether or not to persue this any further.