How Could I Transfer My Template Mod's To My New Skin???
what would be the easiest, non-hassle way to add the hacks from skin a to skin b will still keepin the template mod's to skin a..... if your confused ill try to explain better
so basically just add the hacks again but to the new skin...?
Thats the idea, at the end of the day you are going to spend less time adding them back by hand, then trying to reverse enginer a style to suit the needs of your new one. The only template in vB 2 you might get away with porting right over is phpinclude, but variables in that template can always cause problems, especally with registered globals on.
once i added the skin how would i go about switching between the skins different template files
All templates are stored in the vBulletin database, once a new style is added anew template and replacment set's will be avaiable for you to edit from the admin cp (asuming the style's are using new template and replacement sets).
Once a style is added to the board in vB 2 all members will be able to change the style via their user cp's. As a admin you will also have the style avaiable in the forum area's off the admin cp so you can force forums to have their own styles.