Metacity is probably my favorite window manager ever, I installed it off of the community repositories and logged off to see if I could use it but it did not appear as an option, and I'm really not enjoying E17 right now. Is there any hope (even a highly similar window manager would do)?
EDIT: I'm marking this as solved because I've found solace in LXDE, it's rather different but still close enough to what I was looking for.