NGUI Prefab from 2D to 3D

Here is the specific question on the NGUI forums however it is a little quiet so i thought i would expand the audience.

However after a bit of tinkering it seems to me that i cant do what i said above so it seems that i will have to create a a non NGUI based version of my object and spawn it in 3D Space outside of UIRoot...OR change my UIRoot to 3d instead of 2D.

Any help or thought or direction on this would help.