You really should start a new discussion for that Da Fox :). I think you should get the default skin (simplicity) to work before trying new skins.. new skins pose a heckuva lot more problems so it's nice to have some experience under your belt. All computers seem to need some tweaking to get all the bugs out of any theme. Most likely, most to all of the problems you're having aren't theme related persay.. but more like a theme/OS/computer issue. They're just an incompatability and need to be worked through one by one.

I've never heard of the msvp issue or even the rain issue before but I'm kinda new myself.