I'm not sure if this is a skin type request or not.. but is it possible to have the empeg display with no empeg surrounding it? That way, I could use the remote to control it (or right click the display) and the display would take up very little space.

Yes, this would be a very simple skin to make. Again, you can copy the appropriate files from an existing skin to make the remote, and then take two seconds to create a couple of bitmaps for the face itself at size 128x32. The ini file should place the screen at 0,0 and you're all set.

Creating a skin is not hard at all and complete instructions are included with EmpegFace.