Hai Frodo,
I hope you can get the ring (Your WPF) to the end of the story.
Now i will rename you developers Fellowship of the ring.
(okee i have seen LotR yust yesterday)
Now to the point:
although a Skin engine is a good thing to have, it has also a downsite, imho.
One of them is together with custum plugin's is that skin's for the plugin can be fast out-of-date or does not exist at all in your favorite skin.
In the one CMR i have fixed this by adding a simple plugin-skin insite the plugin-directory. This will be used when no real-skin is present in the used skin.
maby this can also be done in MPII.
Goodluke and a very great 2008 to you all
Niels