Hard to use a WP Theme without installing WP?
 

I see some beautiful WP themes but I really don't need to be using WP as a CMS - would it be simple to just use the html/css and jquery scripts that come with the theme?

are there sites that sell static non-WP themes?

yea, lots of them around

http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates

thanks - any more sites that sell static website templates? other than templatemonster type sites.

you could convert the theme to static

Install the theme on an existing blog and activate.

Look at the blog in your browser.

Save As

Boom, you have a template for a static site.