I'm very very new to Litestep (Surprisingly, I got LiteStep about 3 days before I saw it on TechTV lol), it is very nice and customizable. Is there a nice, clean, metallic theme with MBM 5 compatability showing mobo/cpu temps? I'm not especially looking for a minimalist theme. Also, I may not find what I'm looking for, where can I find tutorials/guides, starts to building themes?

There are some good tutorials here:

http://www.residualvisuals.com/

Although they seem to be aimed at themers with some experience.