Sorry to find out that you were sick. Thanks for the link, I've download the zip file and it may come in handy.
I'm not sure how far this will go, but I hope to get something started.

heroik: sorry to hear you've been ill and i wasn't expecting an answer this early anyway - hope it didn't give you too much trouble! thanks for sending the dropbox link, i replaced the old folder with that one - but it didn't change anything. i still get the grey menubar. it looks just like graechan's screenshot, except that i haven't changed the font colour, mine is still yellow. changing the font colour wouldn't be a good solution for me, the light grey would make too much of a contrast against the green to be comfortable for my eyes. i don't want you to take anymore trouble with this unless you want to for your own sake, though! it's a lovely theme you've created but i've used the same dark grey theme for two years now, i'm sure i can live with it for at least two more .

I'm not sure how much I can help, I've only edited .gktrc files. PM if you need anything.

Thanks Odin, I'll take you up on that. Even though it might just be my "wishful thinking", but I'm going to work on it nonetheless and see how far i can get.

I'll try loading on my parents computer later on its windows7 my laptop is windows 8 (only darn thing that is available unless you buy used I would install Linux yet it overheats this laptop.)and plus with a fresh install on another computer I may see what is causing this. hmm possibly editting some of the other hexadecimal codes may be the culprit. first I have to finish some sign painting work lol was sick so didn't finish work they are already overdue.

If you didn't already know about it Solarized Palette tested across platforms and useful picking colors for your .gtkrc.
The download includes a Gimp palette for reference.

Hey that pretty cool of you, thanks Odin.