What caused the lack of the base on the dials is the little lock you can see in the bottom left, click on that and the orders bar minimises itself and only appears when you mouse over it.
That's a feature of the stock UI, although perhaps the dials aren't supposed to stay on-screen whilst the rest is off screen.
At least I know it's OTC which removes the background tabs and that's how you intended it to be, I didn't see that mentioned in the documentation. I've been playing with SH4 a bit since installing OTC and I don't mind the lack of tabs so much now. I can probably put them back if I want, I'm guessing you just edited the DDS file. But I'll leave it as is as it's not a major thing.
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