Running XP SP2 with latest round of updates (Feb 2/9) installed...
The affected software... SKS Pro 4.51.044; WB 4.50.044; OD+ 1.10.008
Yesterday I tried changing my WB skin to ChromeXP by Pixtudio. Everything seemed fine except the disabled state of the system button was showing as a white blank square with the font. Still worked correctly just the graphic wasn't loading right for it. So I opened it up in SkinStudio, ran the included optimizer, tweaked it and replaced the graphic and finally got it to skin correctly. So far I'm batting 1.000
A few hours later, I started playing around with an all glass aero startmenu in SkinStudio. Got all the settings right and it was looking good. To get it to work correctly though, I had to apply and then re-apply the skin everytime I made any changes. I got bored with that so I ditched the skin figuring alpha-blending was in its infancy and I could wait until it was more refined. So far I figure I'm not having any problems, just an older skin acting wonky with the latest version of software and this startmenu aplha-blending thing, I figured still needed some tweaking before it became really useful.
So know I figured I'd try to import a msstyle by clicking on it. SKS security window popped up, set my options and clicked okay. It was taking quite a while to convert the visual style to the wba format. I didn't think nothing of it except when it was done and I went into WB config find it, so I could edit it in SkinStudio, it wasn't there. The name and description were there, but the preview wasn't. Tried to send it to SKS from there and got the dialog box in SKS telling me wrong type of file. Tried to delete the port from WB config and it siezed. Tried closing WB config, had to kill it. I figured it was just a bad msstyle. So all I had to do was delete the port and try a different one.
On my tabbed dock I keep a shortcut to my stardock folder, so I wanted to get rid of that port. Now my dock was locked up. Opened up Windows Task Manager to kill it and noticed ObjectDock.exe was pegging my cpu around 97-98%. Killed it. Restarted it and my dock is working fine. Went through this and the above mentioned problems with porting two more times with a different msstyles.
I don't know how what I was doing in SKS relates to my dock locking up, but I figured I would just roll back to the previous release of SKS and try it again. The roll back didn't work. Tried twice, with two different archives and kept getting that this or that file was missing. That's a first, I've never had a problem rolling back to an older version. So I unistalled SKS through SDC and I am re-installing it.
So that's where I'm at right now. I'm going to try this porting thing again later today when I get back home from work. I'm really not sure what the issue is. I'm not sure if it's SkinStudio, or maybe during the conversion of the msstyle, OD+ was already pegging my cpu, slowing the conversion and the conversion somehow got messed up, or maybe the latest round of updates from MS borked SKS and OD+.
