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Pigdog's workaround works for me.  I refuse to rebuild the system from scratch like some of the previous postings suggest.  My music, DVDs, Games and other settings are all configured on this system and to rebuild would take days (I haven't separated my core from the media director yet).  So even if it is a work around it is better than a rebuild.  I love Linuxmce so please fix this issue when you have a chance.  Keep up the good work.  I think this issue started about a month ago for me with one of the updates. 

I just posted a possible answer to this issue.  I think you used version 177 of the nvidia drivers in a previous post but try version 173.  It worked for me. 

Here is the post that I explain the whole thing on:

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=8286.msg59879#msg59879

Hope this helps.

Okay, I had the issue of the gray or black screen coming up and then the system complained that there was a transparency issue and it seemed like my computer hardware was not capable of running UI2 properly and so I looked at all of the forums but wasn't able to fix the problem.  I finally did find an answer to my issue as it turns out.  The problem was that the system would install the latest version of the nvidia driver which is 180 and that did not want to work with my system. 

I am using the ASUS M3N78-EM motherboard with onboard Nvidia 8300 graphics.

To fix my problem I used EnvyNG.  I started my system in recovery mode and got to the command prompt. 

At the command prompt I typed:

apt-get install enyng-qt

I then started up KDE using KDE START.

In KDE I went to my start menu/applications/system/EnyNG.

After entering my root password I got into EnvyNG which shows the different drivers that I can use and recommends the best one.  For the Nvidia drivers, it gave me the choice of 180.11-Oubuntu1~intrepid1 (the latest), 177.82-Oubuntu0.1 (slightly older), 173.14.12-1-Oubuntu5.1 (even older) and a few others.  For my system it recommends 177 but I used it and I also used 180 and both of them gave me the gray or black screens.  I had to use the 173 driver and my UI2 worked.  EnvyNG automatically uninstalls the wrong driver, installs the right driver, and then configures KDE's resolution to be optimum for my system. 

At this point reboot and then go through the AVWizard again and your system should be up and running.

I hope this helps!!  I hope this is the right thread to place this in.