If I'd make the changes you asked for it would break consistency with the other themes. Also, it's meant to be the way it is now. Feel free to mod it as long as you keep it to yourself
I don't use TrueTransparency so I'm not sure if I'm going to make a skin for it. At the moment I'm working on Blue SE and the shellstyles. After that my top priority is making Winamp skins.
The three top buttons are called "Caption buttons"