i was never on a stock rom when i had those problems w/ your taskbar. was on juicy's roms and right now im on decks s3 r9 rom. b4 it still never installed properly (no icons appeared plus start menu was broke) i havent tried the lastest on decks rom yet. i will report back when i do.
believe me, i do understand how long/time consuming it takes to make a taskbar. check out this from back in da day
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=66154 thats the only full theme i did including a tb (port from gsm/vga to cdma/qvga) but if you look in the custom taskbar thread (prolly in the archive by now) i have done multiple tb's...its just i still havent set up my desktop from the move and was having girl troubles so i had to put my theme making on hold (till i can balance my girl and making themes/tb at least) i do miss it thou!
so what tb did you rip the dll's from? was it tsowen or 1 of the older 6.5 tbs? also you never answered my question bout the dlls...what dlls you got in the cab? i would look inside w/ wince but like i said i havent set up my desktop yet to do so
EDIT: current rom deck's s3 r9 (6.5 sense 2.5) taskbar does not work (as in no icons show at all; except the taskmanager drop down and the start text not the start icon) the start menu is broke also (not able to open by tapping start or the start menu hard button) and of course the notification screen (when you tap the taskbar that screen that pops up) basicly the same as the other times i have tried.
EDIT: bignadad,
can i ask you if you can upload a zip of just the dlls (not cabbed up) so i can manually install 1 dll at a time and find out that way which 1 is causing conflict??? pls, i would do it except for the same reason as i stopped theme-ing.
thank you ahead of time