I can't understand why you cannot use the files in the release and make your recolors from them

don't tell me because of quality, because we're talking about a tilable gif of about 10 pixels max. With the supplied files, you have more than enough to recolor them.
That doesn't mind that I would not like to see those psd, but I don't see the need to do your new ones, if is just for recolors, besides that you wanted to change something else.
Once 1.05 testing and documenting has finished, I will try do some buttons to replace default_ex default ones, to go with the overall look of the template. ÇI find current ones, too 'default'

the rest of the template seems much more elaborated than them