Are you using medium or large fonts?

I get that too, even on my own skins. I've tried to adjust it to no avail. I dont think it's something that a skinner can fix...margins have no effect on it. However, I have noticed that once you click in the search box, the cursor centers itself (although not permanantly, only when it's active).

I'm using fonts defined by the skin in WB.

Yes, the same for me. Only when I click on the search box, the cursor aligns itself correctly.

I have discovered that the cursor alignment issue is only present after the skin has been applied. If you click out of the start menu and click back in, the cursor is correctly aligned (until the next time you click apply in WB7).

Oddly, the only skin to not have this issue AFAIK is Stripe Poker by vStyler.

It may be related to whether the skin has settings to move the search box - maybe the cursor doesn't quite catch up!

I believe it's connected to the height of the bottom part of the startpanel

interesting, that would be a bug in WB7 then eh?

Are you able to reproduce the issue?

I thought the same, so out came skinstudio and I started messing with the bottom part of the start menu panel, adjusting height and anything else that I thought might help, no luck I'm afraid.

right, so to this date the issue still remains. Does anyone know what might be the issue? Another skin that doesn't have this problem is the excellent 'team time'.