BootSkin Issues

I'm sorry if this is a repeat post but I did search for "bootskin" and found nothing at all.

Anyway, here's the problem I am having. I just recently installed Impulse. Seems you Object Destop wants to use it now instead of stardock central. So I go to "my desktop" section and it tells me that bootskin is not installed. (I know it is, but I figure this is an update)

I install the program and it has none of my old bootskins. I uninstall it, run the old one I had installed, (since it was still there) and my skins are there. This is where the trouble comes in. I decide I'll uninstall it, and install the one that Impulse is saying I need. So I tell it to go to the default windows bootskin, uninstall it, etc. Done and done. I reboot, just to make sure things went ok and it is still showing a non default bootskin. In fact, it's one I deleted ages ago because I didn't like it all that much.

So I do all sorts of things to fix that, including reinstalling and uninstalling both versions of bootskin. No help. I search the internet a little, they i fond that you can supposedly delete the file: [Windows_root]\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe and let the windows recovery system fix it with the original.

So I do that and still the same bootscreen. Please help, because of this, non of the new bootscreens I use are working properly. Non of them have the animated bar anymore. Any ideas how I can restore the original one?