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A few things that you seem to have missed out, you need to leave space on your design for advertisements on the page and also the main navigation and search box at the top as well as the myspace copyright notice at the bottom of the page.
If you don't keep these on your design you'll probably get your account deleted.
There is plenty of space for the ads at the top, and the navigation bar as you can see on my personal myspace does not have to be there as it is on default styles, although it would be fine to leave it in that style, above.
The copyright notices and the bottom navigation would also fit well with the design
Its a great design and pretty different to a lot you can find; I notice many like yours have nothing but a banner above the folds, but hey its not bad really, seeing as its myspace and there is a lot worse on there ; many professional template design sites are offering myspace designs now; take a look at these nice ones
http://www.dream-logic.com/myspacelayouts.html
You can steal some ideas from there
Standing out is essential if your aim on MySpace is to attract the attention of others. While the flamboyantly coloured pages overloaded with streaming content may have seemed "cool" while you cut n' pasted code from various resources on-line, others may not share the same excitement as they tap their desks waiting for pages to load. 50+ million users strong. Of those 50+ million registered users, what percentage do you think access MySpace from a high speed internet connection?
Also, a good "blank canvas" is putting a div overlay on your myspace... http://5thirtyone.com/archives/40
If you ever get annoyed with someone's shabby design, or you cant add or block them as they have no button to do so, or they are hiding comments or friends; just disable CSS in firefox's web developer tool bar and it reverts to a normal looking page with no CSS styling
Yeah I used to have 2 accounts but one got deleted for hiding the ads with the div overlay method last june. The flourishes loop round where the top of that image cuts off and leave enough space between them for the ads and search bar. I wouldn't mind just paying a tenner a year for some sort of premium account so I can hide the ads and sort out the xhtml/css normally instead of tip-toeing around the existing myspace code.
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; many professional template design sites are offering myspace designs now; take a look at these nice ones 
