WindowBlinds crashes Explorer on reboot

Just purchased this yesterday

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Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.5
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.02 (build 75 x86 - Vista Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Hannstar HG216) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

Wblind.dll         2008/01/28 14:31:20
Wblind64.dll         2007/11/02 14:33:06
Wbsrv.dll         2007/09/27 17:47:05
Wbconfig.exe         2008/01/15 12:17:35
Wbload.exe         2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll         2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll              2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll              2007/09/26 11:53:28
Screen.exe         2007/11/08 14:17:51


Ok, this is driving me ABSOLUTELY crazy!
I just puerchased this software lastnight and it worked Fantastic until I rebooted my machine.
Every time I reboot my machine and log into Vista Ultimate 64Bit, my skins change to the one I had chosen B4 I rebooted but the Start button will dissapear and explorer will lock up and cease to work and the only way to stop this from happening is to very quickly switch the skins over to Windows Classic or Vista's standard Theme.

Here's the Event Log error that has come up:

Faulting application Explorer.EXE, version 6.0.6000.16549, time stamp 0x46d235d0, faulting module WBLIND64.dll_unloaded, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x470a73be, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000007ff6609b12b, process id 0x7e8, application start time 0x01c89acfbe8cf5c6.

Every single time it does this and I have already tried reinstalling twice.
Please tell me someone has an idea of whats going on???
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok simple questions first. Latest video drivers? Did you restart right after the reinstall before running the program?

Also was it a downloaded skin you tried out or one that came with the software?
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I have the very latest video drivers. I restarted after the installation completed. I have also restarted many times after that and still it continuously crashes explorer when it finishes booting into vista. Every skin has this happen except for the 2 default ones that come with Vista.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Did you have the trial version installed? If so, that has to be completely removed first then reboot, then download your purchased version using SDC, then reboot and should work.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I ended up reformatting my entire computer and having a fresh install of Vista Ultimate 64bit. I really didn't mind doing this since i was planning on it anyways. So far everything works perfect now. And yes, i did have the trial installed, then uninstalled B4 i bought the full version.