OK, well I just used the LiteStep Installer 3.0.2 and I rebooted and the default theme that came with it worked fine when I rebooted. I installed my theme from the core.zip file and it loaded fine (except for the burn variable, which i fixed)...then I restarted and got the same problem. So I don't know what the hell is going on.

Xcal: did you try and reboot when you were using my theme? If so, everything worked fine for you? Maybe there is a windows file I need to update or something?