I completely understand what you are saying, it was the edited screenshot that was throwing me off because it looked like you had somehow corrected the problem. I will confirm this because I can duplicate it myself by changing my theme to clearlooks.
Steps to Duplicate:
1) Change theme to clearlooks
a) System > Preferences > Theme
2) Click on the nm-applet
I completely understand what you are saying, it was the edited screenshot that was throwing me off because it looked like you had somehow corrected the problem. I will confirm this because I can duplicate it myself by changing my theme to clearlooks.
Steps to Duplicate:
1) Change theme to clearlooks
a) System > Preferences > Theme
2) Click on the nm-applet
Expected Result:
http:// img175. imageshack. us/img175/ 5366/pantallazo 1ea7.png
Actual Result:
http:// img175. imageshack. us/img175/ 8260/pantallazo 1copiaxz2. png