Sometimes it's hard to accept an offer for help even if you know you need it because you are thinking of the amount of work required to accept that help (ie re-skinning). I tend to get bogged down and overloaded myself like that sometimes to my own detriment.

Maybe if you keep trying, or even look at the code and see if you can make a patch file with a few new buttons - that would result in some progress. It would be great because audacity could use some UI love.