Make sure the setting under the actual file is set to transparency enabled. If it isn't an option right click and "add" it. Then you can play with the transparent and translucent check boxes see what works.

Thanks, Kinjin...will try just about anything at this point!!!

WB5, using per-pixel titlebars, will not display MDI buttons under Windows XP.  Known bug, I believe, that doesnt have a fix yet.  Sorry...

"Limitation" rather than a bug, as I recall.

I'm only on my 2nd skin, and I am not using per pixel. But, I remember having problems with the same buttons on my first skin. This time was a real bear. I finally changed the entire look. All the images are to exact specs. In skin studio, they don't show up at all, but when I apply the theme, they display and work with no problems. After enabling/disabling transparency, using transparency/translucency check boxes and every imaginable combination, I couldn't get it to show in skin studio and actually work at the same time. I just left it so it gives me black boxes in skin studio, but actually works in xp. Works...I'm not messing with it further

Thanks everyone....

This is just one of the limits and or problems of SkinStudio when applying the per-pixel images and buttons you lose the Window Frames and buttons all together. I hope that some of these things get straightened out soon. Makes for a lot of extra work when it's not needed.