[davew_uk]

Visualization is available even at basic setting level, so if you cant see it I cant help you.

Well bless my aging eyes, there it is if you scroll right down to the bottom. In my defence, that scrollbar in your skin is very hard to see unless you accidentally mouse over it. I had no idea it was there.

...and I figured out the problem with the backgrounds. I had customised the default Movies item to be my music menu, and customised the default Music item to be my Movies menu item. This gave me the wrong default background in each of those sections.

I still see the default background all over the place however, and I also found out why.

If I customise the "TV Shows" menu item to point a favourite that contains some non-library video files and set a custom background for that menu item, the custom background is not displayed when I drill down. The same happens if I edit one of the custom menu items (CUSTOM1 for example) to point to the same favourite - the custom background I set for that menu item is not displayed when I drill down.

Now what is *really* interesting is what happens if I customise the Video library menu item and change the background. As soon as I do this, the two menus I just customised above suddenly change to showing the new background I just set for the Video Library.

This confirms my suspicion then that the skin is choosing the background depending on the type of content that is being displayed (movies, videos, music) AND what custom background is set in the corresponding default menu item (movies, videos and music).

Since you can customise menu items to your heart's content this is clearly not the right way to do it - and it certainly isn't picking up the parent background of a menu item.