Completety agree on ur view - the users will have to settle for what
MS provides vs what they really fancy.

But the issue here is - this is the CEO of your firm who wants it
personally and ofcourse you want to try to accomodate him.

anyways what I have done yesterday is keep the button enabled and
pressed always (in the state when it was normally disabled) and hence
its a little more prominent than the disabled button. Seems to satisfy
for now.

Thanks for all the help though - really appreciate it.