Using seekbars, i find a strange behavior in terms of look.
When displayed by BA4_designer, they look like neon blue lines, when compiled and inside an activity, they look like a rectangular yellow/black linear potentiometer (left side image)
The style at the right is the new Android 4 (holo) style. You should open the manifest editor and add android:targetSdkVersion="14" (note that is should be there by default).
You can also force the designer to use the old style through the on device designer menu options.
I don't know why but in the manifest editor there was android:targetSdkVersion="4" (instead of 14)...
For information, I've noted too, that for a correct centering of the blue dot on my galaxy S3, I need setting the heigth to 40 instead of the default value of 30