When I first installed WB8, I spent several days wandering around WinCustomize.com, and downloaded many skins which I am much enjoying!!

I face one frustrating anomaly, though... more than 1/3 of my favorite skins are older-style skins, from when there was no taskbar... I can install them, but when I load them, the taskbar is completely messed up; in most cases, it is rendered as a mottled, often-unreadable bar that is roughly the colors of the theme.  In many cases, the icons are not even visible.

Unfortunately, I am severely lacking in artistic skills, so rendering the missing object by hand is probably beyond my capabilities.

So what options do I have, for salvaging these old skins??  A least-effort technique would be to remove the taskbar from WB control and let Windows render it, using a color that is compatible with the skin.  Best would probably be to re-render the taskbar WB object in the appropriate skill, but I'm assuming that would require Photoshop plus artistic skill, both of which I lack.

Has there been any discussion of this subject previously?  Is there any easily accessible solution that would let me utilize these old, beautiful themes?

My system is Windows 7 64-bit.

Originally WB8, but just upgraded to WB10.