[Gnome] Theme Problems

With any of the themes I've tried, the controls do not look how they are supposed too. Here is an example:
Glossy P from http://art.gnome.org
This is how its supposed to look
and this is how it looks on my box
(click for 1280x1024 png)
none of the widgets seem to change, but I have no problem chaging the window border and the same thing happens to any other theme that I try. :cry:
Any help would be appreciated
EDIT:
The screenshot I took is from gnome 2.5, I had the exact same problem with gnome 2.4 and I thought the problem might be fixed in 2.5.

Resolved
it seems that all I needed was the gtk-engines package
a simple pacman -S gtk-engines fixed all my problems 

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