[chuckrobbie]

Well I certainly appreciate all the comments.
I am not a coder, just an end user...maybe a dummies guide to installing mods and skins, especially dos and donts, would be helpful. It is people like Hambil that make this world a happy place, and they shall be blessed in a special way down the line!!!
Following Nexialys' suggestion and Hambil's advice, I have now managed to FINALLY get somewhere, loaded my skin as a child skin, and most of the mods I wanted now work (too scared to try the others).
NOW...my last problem is: How do I get to import my users? The reason is that the new DB if again different to the old one i.e. it has different fields! When I try to install, it wipes out the flields which will cause more problems. So...all i need to do, is import ONLY the user fields. I use Navicat in my game server, and find this program the best for MySQL as it is so user friendly, and MyPhpAdmin is no where near the quality in simple functionality.
I would like to thank the Lads who were very supportive, truly appreciated.
cheers
Chuck