So the changing Title and Endcap images did work but they are not for the drawer so and did not have nextstart set this theme so did not notice.

Maybe creating a completely transparent wsFullTab image would solve the problem. Just erase everything in the wsFullTab image and leave it transparent. I've done that with icons and it worked great.

Believe it or not I was just in the process of doing that.

Yep, it definitely does too much IMO. And that's why there's a fair host of minor and perhaps not so minor issues that ought to have been fixed years ago.

Alas, I can't see some sort of community effort to create some kind of theming guide happen - the problem as I see it is, in the first place, we have too little 'community' here nowadays. How often does one see even the few regulars that do log in from time to time drop in? Sadly, none too often. Just as a comparison, albeit perhaps comparing apples and oranges in this case, but a lot of Linux forums still have far more of a community spirit going and often thousands of new posts per week or even per day. Sure, things have changed a lot since the detraction of the abomination that is 'social media', but neither Winstep nor any serious Linux boards maintain a presence there - thank goodness! - so if people really take a serious interest in the software you'd expect them to get involved more in the forums. Well, that's my 2p's worth anyway - I'm skint again.