Well, I'm not sure that I understood you instructions entirely, but this is what I did. In the paralells configuration panel, I enabled shared profile, then I launched the virtual machine. It told me that it was re-routing all the shared folders so the pc and mac would share the same key directories, but when it was all done, I still could not see the task bar. I could see it when the machine was fist booting, but then it goes away (but it leaves it's real estate there). So then I created a new log in account within windows. I launched via that account, and it still was missing. Tried converting to the classic theme, and still no task bar. any ideas?