any good layout sites besides createblog for lj?

there are many communities on lj that have layouts, such as free layouts

anymore GREAT layouts?!?

they're interspersed throughout. once you find someone who makes a layout you like, you can look at all their other layouts.

Your best bet is probably going to be doing a community search (link) on LJ or looking around more on Google. I went looking a couple years back, and I'll be honest, the best place I found to DATE has been cB as far as that goes, plus you can always make a request here since you meet the requirements.