Ah, I had stopped using the ql bar and had forgotten. But, your post did remind me .... and I started using it again.

The only problem I have had that is similar to the one you describe when it comes to icons on the task bar is that the system tray icons get trashy looking if I do alot of theme switching in WindowBlinds. For some reason the icons can become enlarged show jagged edges and basically they start looking bad. That's when I select Windows classiic theme in Window Blinds, unload Window Blinds and finally reboot. This seems to reset everything and I can then restart Window Blinds. This hasn't bothered me very much since just now I've changed my Blinds theme once since booting and the icons are still fine. If I continued to change Blinds themes say 6 or 12 times, the odds are the icons would look like trash and I would have to use my reboot procedure. Definately not a significanrt problem. I'm definately in the happy Object Desktop WinCustomize camp. Is the problem the blind theme you are using? Have you ever tried the reboot procedure I mentioned?