If you are already patching the uxtheme.dll, why not installing all your favoured themes unattended?

1. Create a install/Themes Folder and put in all your custom theme folders (so for the classix theme you'll have a folder install/Themes/classix where the .msstyle file(s) lie)

2. RAR all custom Fonts in a install/Themes/fonts.rar

3. RAR all themes in a install/Themes/themes.rar

4. Copy the unrar.exe commandline Tool from you Winrar Folder to the install/Tools folder

5. Add the following lines to your batch

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\tools\unrar.exe x -inul %systemdrive%\install\themes\themes.rar %systemroot%\Resources\Themes

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\tools\unrar.exe x -inul %systemdrive%\install\themes\fonts.rar %systemroot%\fonts

You can of course also copy the unrar.exe to your %systemdrive first to save some typing, i think you got the idea.

The main point is, that you can save lot of space by packing the themes, bceause they mainly contain textfiles.

look "More CD Space" Topic

Thats where i got the idea from, just thought to give a little step-by-step for themes

I just make a sfx and toggle it to silent install internally.

I pack them:

MyCustomThemes.exe

[*]\MyCustomTheme\

[*]\MyCustomTheme.Theme

[*]\MyOtherTheme\

[*]\MyOtherTheme.Theme

ect...

And them extrat everything to the 'Themes' folder in Windows.

;The comment below contains SFX script commands

Path=.\%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\
Silent=1
Overwrite=1

*I believe that usinf %systemroot% instead of %windir% will work as well

I haven't tried to load the theme yet (running the *.theme file brings up the Display dialog). I will eventually, but since I run Win2k3 you can't ue your themes until you manually start the service.