Brad and a few other folks were good enough to tolerate my incessant ramblings about skinning issues I had with WB skins (and some apps), but wasn't seeing with MSStyles. I'll cut to the chase here. UIS1 skins make a world of difference! I can't say it'll cure every compatiblity issue, but if you (like me) just want to apply a skin globally without having to worry about exclusions, UIS1 skins may be the way to go for you too. SkinStudio allows for a quick conversion of skins, and offers the ability to save the resulting converted skin separately, or as a "compound skin" within the original skin folder. I think I'm going to do a lot of skin conversion tonight. Now, yes, you do give up some of the cool more feature rich skinning bells and whistles, but for me, this is a great solution. In fact, I would also like to encourage skinners to include the UIS1 format with the skins they create and distribute. Hopefully, this info will be of some use to others out there that just want to . . set it . and forget it!