[wondercow]

Bummer that you couldn't get it to work. If I understand correctly, you don't need Emerald to use Compiz and still get window borders, though. I just checked, and I don't even have Emerald installed on my machine. So, if you just want the neato Compiz effects, you could probably remove Emerald packages and be ok, but if you have your heart set on using Emerald, then I've got no solution for you. Sorry.