off-taskbar skinning

TLB skinning is working just fine when it's a part of the taskbar, but I prefer using it on the top of the menu, "torn off" from the taskbar. I found out that on the taskbar, TLB looks as a part of the XP, if I leave the default settings, TLB has a blue background, meanwhile if I tear it off, the toolbar is grey, with only the frame being blue, and if I stick it to the top edge, it's grey only. I noticed, that it's probably not a bug of the TLB, but Windows XP, since not only TLB toolbars, but every "torn off" toolbar behaves so, yet, it looks ugly... I'm using only a few skinning apps, and I can set all of them to "look XP", except TLB. As I said, it's probably not the fault of TLB, but isn't there any way to go around it? The only way to make everything look all the same is to set the appearance in XP to the windows classic, so the toolbar and the taskbar will look the same: ugly.
I even tried to make a skin for TLB, that looked XP-ish, but the border of the toolbar remaind grey and it looked even worse!
Can anybody help me to make TLB look good and fully skinnable?