This does in fact work as intended. I had gotten all excited about using a zen or today theme (can't remember which) and when you go from that screen to the application screen I think it uses the smaller icons.
If you create an Icon theme it does not resize the larger icons as I previously had thought. My mistake. Sorry for wasting everybody's cycles.
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