starkers: If you get a BSOD in a driver then you will need to report that to the company who made the driver. Most likely nvidia. If you want them to pay attention, keep on allowing Vista to submit the bug to Microsoft.

Have submitted an error report for each event, so hopefully someone's looking at the issue. Although Vista starts normally when WB is uninstalled, I still feel the BSOD with WB installed is a nvidia driver issue cos the identical version of WB works great in XP. I think maybe the driver update was corrupt cos I didn't get the usual restart prompt after installation, just a 'Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close' message.

Restarts were okay for a couple of days before the BSOD appeared, but I've had a couple of other issues as well, so I'm going to clean install Vista RC2 later today and start with a clean slate. Hopefully this will resolve all issues, but should there be any with WB, IP, CursorXP I will report back with the details.

Running latest Beta on WinXP SP2 with only 2 issues. The first is the less than simple wallpaper setting procedure -it takes a few goes and in my case thew only way to get the wall to 'stick" was to change it using WB. Previously a right click on the desktop or setting the wall by right clicking the image would hold. Would it really be hard to add the old check box to the advanced menu choices in WB.
I also note that I can't find the option to use or not to use (that is the question) User Pictures on the start menu. Is it me or has that disappeared? Otherwise I like the WB interface and it does seem to apply changes a tad more quickly than before

In this beta version of Wb I do not found how to change settings for skin sounds (in older skins). To apply sounds or not. In Wb 5.1 this option was easily found.

imitation crabmeat: Your problem has been caused by applying aero while also telling WB to apply a skin.  You need to open wbconfig and tell WB to apply classic.  Then you should be able to apply WB skins. 

If you want to apply aero again you will need to apply aero or classic from wbconfig for now.

Neil Banfield- I was messing around to much with my prior install of vista a had to reinstall.
This time I did a clean install of vista home premium rtm and low and behold the latest version fo WB works without a hitch.
Nothing has changed except the flavor of vista installed.

The problem you listed is it my fault or is it a hiccup in the software?

imitation crabmeat: It is a combination of both.  The software does not yet check if aero is set which is fine as long as you set skins from within WB.  If you go outside WB while WB is running things can get confused.

Bug: The taskbar is two-high. You can resize it up (larger) but not down smaller than two-taskbars-high. You can sometimes get around this by moving the taskbars from the bottom to the sides and top and then back to the bottom again. Also in many cases, there is no resize arrow for the taskbar when you hover over the appropriate edge. Even if you mess with it and get it to one-taskbar-high, if you logoff or reboot, it's right back to two-high. I've tried several skins with the same result. It seems to be worse with Acrylic though.

Update/FYI: This is related to the start-button glow. I've deleted this section from the skins and the problem goes away. The taskbar behaves 100% proper without this section in the skin.

Neil Update to my earlier BSOD issue. I reinstalled WB 5.49a[b].021 via SDC on a clean install of Vista RC2 without issue....runs perfectly now. As suspected, it was nvidia driver related....this time I allowed Vista to auto install the drivers and did not perform a manual nvidia driver update as before.

The only issue I have now is with IconPackager not changing all Vista's desktop icons, just the 'Computer' & 'Control Panel' ones. Oh well, it's no biggie for now....I've got WB and OD Plus working fine and I'm sure a fix for IP will be found soon.

Sorry Neil...another update. After a few reboots I got the dreaded blue screen again and had to start Vista in safe mode. The issue, however, only reappeared after Vista peformed an auto Windows update and installed new GPU drivers. I tried reverting to the previous version but this did not resolve the issue for long...Vista again updated the drivers and I was back to square one/another restart in safe mode due to the GPU drivers being stuck in a loop....

I tried other workarounds - unloading WB, disabling Aero to avoid conflict - but to no avail....WB reloads at startup and the only way I'm able to get Vista to boot properly every time is to uninstall WB altogether.

It seems that without WB installed, Vista is quite happy with the original drivers it installed upon rewrite, but when WB is installed it wants to auto update to the most recent nvidia drivers, which for some reason go into a loop and result in the BSOD.