First of all, I should like to compliment you on a very useful and friendly programme and thank you for making it available to the user community.
Would it be possible (it may already be, and I just couldn't figure out how) to add a background colour to the desk band of 'transparent' so that the numbers appear directly on the taskbar? The frame colour would have to be transparent (or 'none') as well.
Also, the desk band sits in the taskbar about 1/4" from the notification area and can be expanded only towards the left (towards the Start button in XP). Can you arrange it so that the desk band can be placed right up against the notification area, thereby saving that 1/4"?