Fading Fog + Skymap ?!

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I know others have had similar issues, but I haven't been able to find a proper solution..

How can you smoothly fade 'fogged objects' into the background - specifically a skybox - without resorting to expensive image-processing and multi-rendering tricks?

Using a fog color that 'roughly matches' my sky background is simply not acceptible since it looks absolutely horrible (anno 2008)...

Did anyone ever find a way around this? Perhaps some external library that can accomplish this (ashadow?)??

here's a test example of what I mean - with the light area being the effect of the fog:


Thanks in advance,
:Danny