Shoutbox

Hey. I've been curious for quite a long time as to whether there's a way to get rid of this mysterious grey bar at the bottom of my conversation window.
Changing the skin doesn't seem to fix the problem, or changing the conversation wallpaper.
From what I can gather, this was originally a 'grey' filter, like the one used in the chat reading/typing boxes for the bottom text advertisement.
If you look at any default msn skin, this bar is tall enough to support the ad, but with it removed, it's just tall enough to reach the top of the rounded bottom corners.

I'm using 8.5 WLM, and have stuffplug, a-patch, and msgplus.

any help in removing this grey bar is deeply appreciated.