How to make top ribbon visible on all accounts - My Sites

Question

So I've spent a lot of time customizing the look and feel of My Sites using feature stapling but I had been checking the changes using the Administrator account...now I logged in as a test user with minimal permissions and the Top Ribbon dissppears!!!

How can I make the top ribbon be visible for all users no matter the permissions? There doesn't need to be a Site Actions menu available but my entire spacing for the site is based on the ribbon so I would like t visible at all times if possible.

Basically if the ribbon isn't there all content moves up and ruins the look I set up.

Below are two screenshots,one of the Admin account and one of the Regular user account. What can I do to enable the ribbon on the Regular user account?

Thanks for any ideas!!!

Admin Account:

Regular Account:

I don't think my CSS will matter for this as user accounts don't have the top ribbon visible, this is OOTB. I removed my entire CSS and checked with both a regular user and the admin account and the ribbon is still not visible at the top. Anyways this is my CSS just in case:

/* --------------------------body--------------------------- */
body > form > div[id^="s4"] {
  width: 1280px !important;
  margin: 0 auto;
  border-width: 0 1px;
}
body {
  background-color: gray;
}
form { 
       width:1280px !important; 
       margin: auto !important; 
}
body.v4master {
       overflow: visible;
       height: inherit;
       width: inherit;
}
body #s4-workspace {
  overflow: visible !important;
}
/* --------------------------ribbon--------------------------- */
body #s4-titlerow {
  margin-left: auto !important;
  margin-right: auto !important;
  position: fixed;
  top: 37px;
  z-index: 22;
}
body #s4-ribbonrow 
{
  margin-left: auto !important;
  margin-right: auto !important;
  border-left: 1px solid black;
       border-right: 1px solid black;
  position: fixed;
  overflow: visible;
  z-index: 1000;
  top: 0px;
  width: 1280px !important;
}
.ribbonbackground, .s4-title {
  background:url('/_layouts/images/header.png') no-repeat scroll 0 transparent !important;
  width: 1280px;
  border-left: 1px solid black;
       border-right: 1px solid black;
  padding: 0px;
  height: 110px;
} 
.s4-titlelogo { 
  background-image:url('/_layouts/images/logo.png');
  background-position: left center; 
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  display: block;
  height: 80px;
  width: 334px;
} 
.s4-titlelogo > a > img { 
  visibility: hidden;
  width: 350px; 
  height: 60px; 
}
/* hide the breadcrumb */
.s4-titletext {
  visibility: hidden;
}
.s4-title h1 {
  font-size: 10px;
}
.s4-title h2 {
  font-size: 10px;
}
.s4-pagedescription {
  visibility: hidden;
}
/* --------------------------nav bar--------------------------- */
.ms-globalnav {
  background-color: black !important;
  background: url('/_layouts/images/navigation.png');
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin-left: auto !important;
  margin-right: auto !important;
  position: fixed;
  top: 135px;
  width: 1280px !important;
  height: 30px !important;
  z-index: 999;
}
/* font colors */
.s4-sn li.static > a:hover, .s4-sn li.static > a, .ms-contactcardtext1, .ms-newsfeedheader,  .ms-WPBody a, .ms-contactcardtext2, .ms-contactcardtext2 a {
  color: black !important;
}
/* hide hover underline in top bar */
.s4-mysitetn a:hover {
text-decoration: none !important;
}
/* remove the overflow scroll */
.customBodyHolder .customPageWidth {

}
/* change padding and height */
.customBodyHolder {
min-height:200px;
/*padding-bottom: 50px;*/
width: 1280px;
}
/* light blue area at top of profile */
.s4-sn, .ms-profilepageheader {
background-color:#efefef;
}
/* make the site actions colors match the branding */
.ms-siteactionsmenuinner  {
/*background:url("/_layouts/images/bgximg.png") repeat-x scroll 0 -467px #313031;
border-color:#313031;*/
}  
/* main body area */
.s4-ca {
  float: none !important;
  margin-left: auto !important;
  margin-right: auto !important;
  width: 1280px !important;
  position: relative;
  top: 91px;
  border-left: 1px solid black;
  border-right: 1px solid black;
}
body #s4-leftpanel {
display:none;
}
body #s4-bodyContainer {
  margin: auto !important;
  width: 1280px !important;
}
/* welcome menu - username and login info */
.s4-trc-container-menu {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0px;
  float: right;
  z-index: 1500 !important;
  /*overflow: visible;*/
}
.ms-globalnavtrc s4-trc-container s4-notdlg {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0px;
  z-index: 1500 !important;
  /*overflow: visible;*/
}
/* help menu */
.ms-globalnavhelp {
  visibility: hidden;
}

Answer 1

Figured this one out...what I did was create a Security Trimmed Control using this code:

<Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat="server" Permissions="ViewPages">
   <div id="blank-ribbon" class="custom-blank-ribbon">  
   </div>  
</SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>

the code goes in the masterpage

Then I styled the control to look like the top ribbon bar in terms of color and location on the page in my CSS file and I basically got a fake ribbon thats visible for every user. When an admin is logged in the regular ribbon goes right over this fake ribbon so no functionality is lost. Thought I would post my solution in case anyone else encounters this.