XPStyle & Manifest Explained
For anyone like me who is wondering what XPStyle and the manifest are all about I found this that explains why KiCHiK needed to add the "manifest" to get a themed look working under XP (warning: document is very oriented to developers).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...x/cookbook.asp
(edited by kichik, link now works)

(sorry that's been bugging me for a while, figured I'd share)