Media Player not responding in Skin Mode

I am running Vista Home Premium 32-bit with Windows Media Player 11 installed. Just a couple of days ago, I put the Player in Skin Mode, and it stopped responding. When I close out and re-open it, it opens in skin mode, and fails to respond at all. I've never had this problem before. I thought maybe my most recent updates affected it somehow, so I did a System Restore to before those updates. WMP opened in full mode, but still failed to respond when I changed to Skin Mode. Any advice would be appreciated.

Most recent report of the problem:

Product
Windows Media Player

Problem
Stopped working

Date
5/10/2009 4:23 PM

Status
Report Sent

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 11.0.6001.7004
Application Timestamp: 49472063
Fault Module Name: AlbumArt3D.dll
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 441e0e9a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00003179
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: f05d
Additional Information 2: 01446e2ffe549acca0a51b2f93dfd3fb
Additional Information 3: 44a6
Additional Information 4: 3f188d41af25e51eb54c4a3808514be1

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 1159552649

A skin or visualisation pug-in that you installed brought AlbumArt3D.dll with it, and that DLL is causing WMP to crash. In fact, that DLL is fairly old on your machine - "Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:08:26 UTC" (441e0e9a).

You should try to work out what/where that DLL came from and hence either update it with a newer version (in the hope that its bugs will be fixed), or remove it if no updates are available.

A quick web search yields an MS newsgroups discussion which matches your situation very closely:

WMP 11 Skin in microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.skins