I just want to thank everyone for the discussion on this thread, and Christoph especially for being so nice to a newcomer. It's awesome to see so many people care about Xfce in Fedora!
Some general thoughts - I came into this as a distro-switcher. Coming back to Fedora after a years long hiatus. I actually feel silly now with some of the theme/layout stuff I brought up. Really, there isn't anything wrong w/ the defaults as we have it now, I think it was just me getting used to it... I've even turned back on the borders on the clock and notification area. ;-) I'm really not a tweaker - I like to keep my systems as close to default as possible.
Like Christoph said, the biggest help would be in QA, and ensuring we don't have any bugs for F18, obviously. Since I'm new to Fedora, is it a good idea, or would it help to run Rawhide on one of my machines? I have both a Laptop, Desktop and/or VM's I could use. One of my physical machines would get more real use than a VM though.
If Rawhide is a good (okay) idea, what is the best way to get a F17 system to Rawhide. The documentation on the Wiki confused me, honestly. I would only run it on machines where I could afford downtime, but I'm willing to give it a shot.