As you can see in both themes, I have a border that won't go away on top of the taskbar. If I set it to locked/unlocked, no difference. Auto-hide, always up, still there. Any idea what it could be? I've done google searches and searches on this forum, but maybe I'm just not using the right keywords. Whatever you can tell me would be much appreciated, thanks.

Right Click, then press Lock the Taskbar.
edit: just saw that, ok. it may just be the themes. dunno.

I've already done that. The second shot it's set as locked.

First shot is default windows theme. Oh well, back to windows classic. Why I thought I needed to start using themes is beyond me.

This is off-topic but holy crap, who is that in your background?

Just added tonight. Found her after seeing another pic of her in Dan Huard's (system) desktop. Got that pic itself from this link:

Yoko Matsugane

eww

rgr that