after refreshing, i see the capture in the attachment. it never goes away, until i restart the server ... at which point it appears as if i never installed it. in catalina.out, i see ...

19:19:46,293 INFO  [AutoDeployDir:76] Processing sample-unstyled-theme-4.3.3.1.war
19:19:46,298 INFO  [ThemeAutoDeployListener:55] Copying themes for /Users/jtb/liferay/deploy/sample-unstyled-theme-4.3.3.1.war
19:19:46,302 INFO  [BaseDeployer:482] Deploying sample-unstyled-theme-4.3.3.1.war
19:19:46,372 INFO  [BaseDeployer:564] Updating Sample Unstyled Theme from version 4.3.3.1 to version 4.3.3.1
  Expanding: /Users/jtb/liferay/deploy/sample-unstyled-theme-4.3.3.1.war into /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/temp/20071102191946435
  Copying 1 file to /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/temp/20071102191946435/WEB-INF
  Copying 1 file to /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/temp/20071102191946435/WEB-INF
19:19:46,971 INFO  [BaseDeployer:992] Modifying Geronimo /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/temp/20071102191946435/WEB-INF/geronimo-web.xml
19:19:46,987 INFO  [BaseDeployer:1038] Modifying Servlet 2.3 /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/temp/20071102191946435/WEB-INF/web.xml
  Copying 5 files to /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/../webapps/sample-unstyled-theme
  Copying 1 file to /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/../webapps/sample-unstyled-theme
  Deleting directory /Users/jtb/Applications/liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-jdk5-4.3.3/temp/20071102191946435
19:19:47,337 INFO  [ThemeAutoDeployListener:61] Themes for /Users/jtb/liferay/deploy/sample-unstyled-theme-4.3.3.1.war copied successfully

which looks okay to me

p.s., couple of off-topic comments ...

1. disallowing posts in the top liferay category was fine, but now there's no place for general comments because all of the cats are technical (for example, this comment).

2. it would have been nice to make the above mentioned change to new threads and not existing ones. i spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why i couldn't reply to my existing thread, and now i have to re-post it.

3. in FF, the font in this forum post window is about 6pt or so and i can hardly read it.

4. why do i need to re-enter a new captcha after entering one to get to the post preview page?

thanks!