Just went through the process of theming the maintenance page as documented at http://drupal.org/node/195435 and thought I'd suggest it as a feature. It requires addition of 

function phptemplate_preprocess_maintenance_page(&$vars) {
  if (function_exists('_color_page_alter')) {
    _color_page_alter($vars);
  }
}

to template.php for the custom colors to be read when the maintenance template is copied and the mod to settings.php to enable it is done.

It doesn't hurt anything to have it in there other than making the file just that much larger of course, and if/when the core adds a UI for putting non-db settings onto site files (XML?) it would make this easier.

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onejam commented

Thanks will add this later. :)