VLC: Help!: Weird minimization problem I never saw before in ANY app!...

Hi all.

I recently DL'd VLC portable 0.86c, unpacked it and launched. Then I tried to change to another skin - which I had DL'd - from the default skin (Unfortunately, I can't recall exactly what I did, as it was over a week ago). After I finished my changes, VLC minimized itself to the taskbar, and the options to restore and maximize were greyed out.

Since then, every time I've tried to fire up VLC, it appears onscreen ONLY minimized to taskbar, only now with a new twist from that first time:
It will appear as TWO taskbar tabs/buttons, not just one.
BOTH are greyed out for "restore" and "maximize" functions, and I sit here frustrated.

Anyone got any ideas what I can do to get it back working normally?
Is there a config file for it somewhere I can manually edit to correct the prob?...
Anything?
At all?...

HELP!?!?!...

Thx.