Figured I'd post this in here...
This is the older version of the OTA 2.2 leak (not the one that came out on 8/1). I didn't reboot, kill any programs, or anything like that...It never seems to make a difference for me. I don't even use a task killer at all. I'm currently using LauncherPro, but have seen the same scores with Sense...I put setCPU in performance mode and I'm also running my own version of the audio fix, my pandora sounds awesome and doesn't affect my scores

I changed the VM heap size to 32m, but haven't noticed any difference.
Linpack averages 38's, though I'll get the occasional 39.
Would be nice to see what I'd get with OC. On an older version of sky raiders ROM before the 2.2 leak, I was getting mid/high 1400's in quadrant and 45's in linpack. With this ROM I get pretty consistent 1300's, the highest I've seen was 1375.
I've been running this leak since the day it came out, and with the couple fixes I needed, like the market and gmail fixm and my audio fix, it's been super stable and much quicker than 2.1. I'll stick with this until the OC kernels come out. It seems like I have better battery life too. I was using Juice plotter and when the screen is off, my battery usage flatlines. This is purely anecdotal, but it seems like the cpu scaling is more conservative, and seems to sit at the min clock speed when asleep. (I don't think it used to do this)