it sounds like the size of the font is not right.? did you try to use the option for larger fonts that you can find on the options panel below the place to pick the skin.?
edited this in.
Never mind it is not the large font. i get the same thing in both his skins the gold and the pink.
but i only get it if i select a song in the list. then click the now playing node a second time.
seems to be a error in the programming? could be they were made with old version of skin theme engine.?
i remember getting some strange things like that when i first made the skins in mm 3.0.0 doing alpha testing.
but the next update was one that fixed it, so maybe he made the skins with old version of mm 3 ?
nope that ain't it i just recompiled it in my system and still doing it. got to find it so i'll get back to you when i do.
okay i believe i found it.
none of his buttons or areas for a focused bitmap have any black or white image in them. they need one of them to work proper.

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