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Welcome to HS.
What are you looking for in the lowering? Is your prime concern looks, or are you more concerned about performance? Also how much do you plan to drop? Also what size rims are you planning on going with?
The generally accepted recommendation you'll get for dropping will be some Eibach Pro-kits with Koni Yellows. Of course with Pro-kits you can run stock shocks, but it is recommended to replace them, mainly with Koni Yellows. The Pro-kit will drop you about 1.3-1.5", whereas you could get the Sportlines that'll drop you 1.8-2". With the Sportlines you'll definitely need a camber kit, with the Pro-kits you may or may not need a camber kit. A note on the Koni Yellows, though, I think I may have read somewhere that they're not good for huge drops, so the Sportlines may be too much with the Yellows. Neuspeed also makes springs for the Accords that are supposed to be pretty good, I'm not sure how much they drop.
Either of those options will give you much better handling than stock with a decent tuck of the wheels up into the fender well. You definitely run 18"x7.5 with 225/40/18 with the Pro-kits without any mods to the body, I'm not sure if the Sportlines will require any special mods to run 18".
Of course your other option is coilovers. True coilovers come more highly recommended than coilover sleeves. Tein makes some nice coilovers (Super Street, or SS) for the Accords. Unfortunately, though, the EDFC isn't available for the Accord unless you want to make body mods. Also you can pick up coilovers from Tanabe, they're supposed to be pretty good.
For sleeves GroundControl is the highest recommended for those, IIRC.
Personally, I'd wait until you get the new rims/wraps before doing the lowering, but that's just me. I think the cars look funny when lowered without having larger wheels than the stock 15".
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