[miker8]

ceege1, first disable UAC it did the trick for me, ...not able to download content or files? ..strange..try doing that with Vista option 'Administrator.'..secondly, use 7Zip as a subtitute to extract RAR files,..now I've never had problems with manually importing skinpacks, though I had problems in the past with changing values in con.fig file but switching off UAC did the trick, hope it works for you too, btw to make sure you put the Skin 'bitmap files' in the correct file , I open the skin map and select all the 'naked' bitmap files and place them in it, pc asks to overwrite and I acknowledge, ...done