Theme Help

[Elfo]

Once again, I've run into a problem

I'm trying to create a theme, and I think I'm about done with all of the Photoshop work, but I'm running into some issues with theme.ini. Other themes work fine, but my theme throws up the following error everytime I try to run it:

17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:  Version 2 Theme being used. Loading.
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:  Loading Button Data
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:  Loading Font Data
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:  Loading Layout Data
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:  --**--
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:  Error: Argument 'Number' is not a valid value.
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:	 at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ErrObject.Raise(Int32 Number, Object Source, Object Description, Object HelpFile, Object HelpContext)
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:	 at q.a(String A_0, Double A_1, Double A_2, Boolean A_3)
17:02:48.1  8/24/2008:	 at q.a(Int32 A_0, Int32 A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3)
17:02:48.2  8/24/2008:	 at q.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Boolean A_4, Int32 A_5)
17:02:48.2  8/24/2008:	 at q.a(Boolean A_0, String A_1, Boolean A_2)
17:02:48.2  8/24/2008:	 at q..ctor()
17:02:48.2  8/24/2008:  Closing database connection
17:02:48.2  8/24/2008:  GameEx is exiting with errors
17:02:48.2  8/24/2008:  ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING

What am I doing incorrectly?

Additionally, everytime I go into the theme editor it restores certain elements, like the Title and home button, things I don't want in my theme. Will it cause a problem if I zero these elements out, like 0,0,0,0?

Lastly, the one thing I have left in Photoshop (that I know of) is to clean up a picture of Cloud for my PSP background, but I'm having a bitch of a time cleaning his hair. I've attached the original file I am working with, and am wondering if anyone has seen an already cleaned version?

/rant on

I f*cking hate jpeg's after this project. They have to be the most godforsaken things a programmer every came up with. Between the lack of transparency and the preponderance of artifact creation I don't understand how they ever became popular... Maybe it's like the iPod where it's a shitty rip off of an already existing idea that becomes popular through teenage word of mouth...

/rant off

[headkaze]

I can't really help with this problem I'm afraid. It's something Tom needs to look at, so perhaps you should post your Theme.ini file? I've seen the error before but I'm not sure what causes it. Perhaps it's when your trying to place elements off the screen? The best way to hide something is use a black image.

As for that image you posted, I suggest you take a look at Photoshop's extract tool. You can draw over the edge of the character then fill the centre and it will extract the image. Then you can clean it up from there. How well it works depends though.

[Elfo]

Very well, here's the ini. I've manually zeroed out the elements I don't want, but when I was playing with this last night they were all placed within screen limits; I just didn't have associated graphic elements.

Theme.txt

[T. Goodchild]

I've also tried using the 0 setting but it doesn't work, so I usually just reduce the window to 1 and hide it in the corner. It's not a good solution but it works for hiding parts you don't use.