yea THANKS STEVE!!!
i gave that theme a shot and i went into my system files to replace the old ones with the new ones as according to the intructions given by the software involved. I rebooted and ran into errors that prevented me from actually seeing a desktop... I couldnt even do a system restore... well thankfully my bro had the bright idea of doing system restore from the Vista Install disk. Now everything is back to normal
...it only cost me a couple hours...