Get back to mac os 10.5.2

Okay, so I have an iBook G4 12in 1.33 ghz. A few months ago I had installed leopard, but realized that I still needed os 9, so I went back to Tiger (with classic support) a few weeks ago. Today, I no longer needed that app, so looking forward to being able to right click with two finger taps, and all the transparent menus/menu bars, I did a clean install of os 10.5. Soon after (like an hour), I ran system update, and was landed with 10.5.2, which took away the transparent menus from leopard. In my opinion (and people can disagree), I think that was ridiculous. I loved the way I used to be able to see through the menus to the windows open below. If I can't find a fix in the next day or to, I plan to do a clean install (again) to 10.5, then manually download the 10.5.1 update, and just leave it at that.
But getting to my question, had anybody figured out how to make the menus transparent again? It was a cool feature, that was taken away! I think Apple needs to make it an option in the Appearance pane or something. I think I have something like what I want installed on my Wallstreet PowerBook g3 running mac os 9.2. I'll try to figure out what it's called.

daerid wrote:
This isn't a problem about the menu bar, it's a problem with the actual menus themselves. I just recognized this today. Whenever you right click the desktop or any finder window, the context menus that pop up are no longer translucent.
My actual menu bar is semi-translucent as it should be
That's normal in 10.5.2. People were complaining that the transparent menus were hard to see, so  took them away. (IMHO, it would have been better for them to have added an option, but there's nothing I can do about it, so...)

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