I wonder....
in the aruba skins' ini files, look for the position instruction:
[General]
Background=.\bg.jpg
;PlaySound=.\..\Common\Sound.wav
TimeToShow=400
TimeToStay=15000
TimeToHide=400
Blend=false
position=620,800
debug=false
I'm wondering if it's popping up 'off-screen'?
those co-ordinates suit me for a 19" monitor @ 1280 x 1024, if yours is wildly different from that, I'm guessing that might cause a problem. Try removing the co-ordinates and make the value 'systemtray' (without the quotes). does that help?
the other thing on my mind was your changing the size of the thumbnail. your description was not all that clear to me, but, to change the thumbnail size, you change its "type" in the ini file. it can be anything from 0 - 5, buuut..
anything bigger than 32 x 32 will not fit on the background, and I've a feeling that might be doing some wierd stuff as a result.
I'll need to check this here and get back to you.
The past 3 builds have also given me problems with some xvid files, I've been watching for a fix, but none so far, so it's possible we are seeing similar video problems. For me, the offending xvids cause Windows to intervene and shut MC down. The 'faulting module' is always xvid.dll.
more to follow