Someone else recently posted a report stating that when you set a background for the channel switchbar, the buttons are no longer themed by Windows XP.

In an attempt to pinpoint my button-text-color issue, I tried a switchbar background and saw that this is indeed true. The buttons are no longer themed, but the button text is normal!

It would really be nice if we could have our themed buttons and still have the button text color behave normally, like it did before 6.17, but this is at least a temporary solution to make switchbar buttons readable again.