I just found this bug report after experiencing the same problem in 11.04 Seeing that gnome-settings-daemon throws an error I tried killall gnome-settings-daemon and after a short pause, my expected theme reappeared. I didn't even have to log out. Maybe this will help others until a fix is found.
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