I am using Windows 7, Skinstudio 7 pro and windowblinds Diamond visual style as a base to design my own Alienware inspired visual style. 

Based on the design of my taskbar, I would like to move the taskbar window icons and pinned window icons over toward the right -- closer to the center of the taskbar. Currently, they're too close to the start buton for my taste.

I've tried everything i could think of but the only solution is to have a single start button image on a canvas that's 158px Wide X 50px high and set the image count to 1 in Skinstudio 7 pro.

It pushes the icons over nicely. Only problem is that one image wont allow for mouseover animations since multiple images are need for that.

When i tried creating a five start button image with the same spacing as the one I mentioned above (158px wide times 5) (totaling 790px wide X 50px high) and change the image count to 5 in Skinstudio 7 pro, the start button doesn't appear at all. 

I've also tried the same method with a 3 start button image and a 2 button image. Neither worked at all (no start button was visible). 

I've have made a 5 start button image that totals 380px X 50px that works, but it DOESN'T move the pinned icons over like I want.

Could the problem be that my 158px wide image canvas and the 790px wide image canvas are too wide for the start button space allotment in skinstudio? If so, then why does the 158px image canvas fit nicely when I only have one start button image on it. And why does the 380px wide 5 start button image work, but not move the pinned icons over on the taskbar?