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Originally posted by Zhin Jio

Yup, it makes perfect sense. But doesn't it also make sense that so long as there isn't any color specific code in any template, that one template should do the trick? You say it will look 'messed up' in both. Why? Sure, I'll need to be less creative than I would otherwise (since I have to use the same types of buttons and images throughout... but what is really stopping me?

And, why was I seeing the behavior I saw?

- ZJ

There you go. Just dont do custom design on a template that only pertains to one skin. Remember that you got more than one skin using info from that template set. Thats when you should use the new skin's new replacement set, not the default one. So you can use replacing variables.