I've also tried changing the bmp on the bottom panal, setting it's vision to false and editing the ini and ui, so good luck figuring this one out for me, i know someone can, or else those fancy edits for dl wouldn't exist!

One thing you can do SpYk3 is contact one of the skinners who is currently making LogonStudio skins.  They will normally help where and when they can.

just take a black magic marker and draw a line across the bottom of your screen then you wont see the white line...

seriously though, I know nothing about LS but I do know a little bit about SKS and bmp's. is there any transparent parts in your image? are you sure the "magic pink" is true magic pink (255 - 0 - 255), if using a layer based software like photoshop did you flatten the image? if so don't, that will change the background from magic pink to white.

in other thoughts. will LS accept .png files? I don't know but I find png easier to work with than bmps because transparency in pngs is simple as a tranparent background not a "magic" color.

decide how tall you want the bottom panel - crop that much off the bottom of your pic - use the cropped piece as the bottom panel