CS5 UI bug under "windows classic" theme

I've noticed this on CS4 as well, but hoped it was fixed under CS5 - turns out not: the photoshop CS5 user interface seems to not understand the concept of "different themes" under windows vista/server 2008 when using the classic windows theme. It will try desperately to hide the fact that it's actually skinning a normal window, and so I get a lot of malrender lines, and two sets of min/max/close buttons in the upper right (the "real window" ones, and the skinned photoshop ones).
Screenshot:
http://pomax.nihongoresources.com/downloads/CS5-UI-messup.jpg

Could be, but unless you're part of the programming team responsible for the UI and know exactly why it's doing what it's doing, I would pitch in that even if MS doesn't seem to get around to fixing it, that never prevents a good dev team from working around the problem.
It would be relatively simple to add a setting to the program which, when the user selects it in the UI preferences, forces a secondary UI redraw every time dialogs are popped up or removed. This might "slow down" things, but blitting a small part of the screen from buffer is probably one of the least expensive operations when it comes to what Photoshop—and presumably all the other applications—routinely does (if they weren't, 30FPS full screen software decoded video would not exist =)
Of course I should point out the immense importance of the "if the user selects it" bit there, since Adobe has a long history of going with something different without offering the user a way to say "no, I prefer it the way it worked before". There was nothing wrong with the UI experience on windows up to CS4, so the switchover to a skinned UI that couldn't be told to not actually skin was rather annoying. I had hoped the CS5 team would revert that change so that Photoshop would, to quote John Nack, "[...] do the Right Thing automatically, as its default behavior". A bit disappointed that didn't happen, so we'll have to see whether all the new functionality can weigh up to a constantly corrupting UI.
Corrupting in a relatively irrelevant part of the screen, sure, and it doesn't impair functionality either, but damn is it annoying to look at =)

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