u can make XP use the silver theme by using a reg tweak (try regsnap & it'll work 2 record the reg changes made)

For the silver theme just search for "+silver +theme" and search for any date instead of 30 days old. There should be several posts about it. As for the autopartition=1, i am pretty sure the only thing it does is look for the partition with the most free space and installs to it. I think that is the only thing it looks for to determine which one it will use, so if your C: is the biggest, then you should have no problem. So setting the autopartition=1 and the filesystem=leavealone then you should get no prompts. I don't.

yeah regsnap is great... take a snapshot, then go and change the theme to Silver, then take a second snapshot.. it will make you a registry file