VISTA - battery gauge in task bar still flaky??

Hi,
I recently updated the Power Manager software on my T61 to the latest version and found that the battery gauge display is still white and unreadable when using Vista+Aero (transparency on/off doesn't matter).
The gauge displays correcly when at least one window on the desktop is full screen (because that changes the taskbar colors), otherwise it's white and the text can only be hardly read.
It's certainly a minor issue, but I wonder why it hasn't been worked out in all those updates.

Hello,
the only solution seems to roll back power manager to previous version or disable aero function.
The original version of your power manager is stored at c:\SWTools.
Edit:
@Bill I changed my ontological assertion into a more phanomenology one.
Message Edited by Agotthelf on 29-10-2008 06:16 PM
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