Skin import/export and XML issue? Cp5

Hello there,

I have to say I'm feeling rather stupid posting again and again -- there is a team of us working from a central repository and due to deadlines, we had a couple of projects started before we finalised a template.

Now that we have a template, it seems extremely difficult to apply the designed skin onto the existing project. Even though I saved the template skin, I could not find it's source file and none of the export fundtions actually facilitates the skin definitions.

I tried opening the project on the machine on  which the skin was designed assuming I could choose it from the drop  down selection - but - alas - even though it was saved, it was no where  on that list.

By pure fluke, I had the template and the working project open at the same time and found out I could then - and only then - choose the skin from the template when changing skin settings for the proejct.

Is this how it's meant to happen, or am I missing something huge?....

Also - having attempted a number of times to export settings via XML and re-importing them straight back in (on the same machine using the same template/project file), the importing of the XML file fails every single time.

I wouldn't mind attaching it in case it needs reviewing, however, I did not edit/reqrite anything from it's Captivate output, nor can I find a means of attaching files to this forum....

Not my day, is it?!

Thanks for your help, shani.