(Posted this yesterday in the WindowBlinds forum, but I just realized that that was the wrong place...Oops! ^^;; )

OK, so I'm nearing the end of my free Windowblinds & SkinStudio trials, & I'm almost done customizing my computer to look like Vista! The only problem is, I'm having trouble skinning the menu bars & menu bar option glyphs.

Thankfully, these screenshots of my computer will give you a very thorough idea of what I'm trying to do!

First, this is what the menu bar looked like on my old Vista computer:

Here's my current skin settings for the menu bars:

And the settings for the menu bar options:

Here's the value currently set for menu bar height in Windows Registry Editor:

Here's the menu bar height chosen in SkinStudio:

And, finally, here's a picture with different sizes of menu bar heights that I've tried experimenting with:

Oh, almost forgot the most important information of all: Basically, what I need help with, is getting the menu bar & menu bar options to show up properly in the SkinStudio preview, instead of those gray blocks with no button pictures on them (see Figure 2).

I tried using several different menu bar height sizes--all ranging from 19 to 26--but all I get is this result in Notepad, & I know it's not supposed to look like that, so I'm quite certain I'm doing something wrong with the skinning &/or the registry editing:

But I have no way of knowing what it is that I'm doing wrong!

Can anyone please help me out with this problem...preferably before my free SkinStudio & WindowBlinds trials run out on May 30? ^^;; PMs will be a great help in continuing the conversation, as I can't post too many replies while I'm a new member.