Hi Richard,
This discussion has come up on the list many times in the past (well, as far as skinning goes). Until ROS can run reliably and fast, there is no need for skinning support. When you can successfully run the NVidia installer to install your graphics drivers, then upon reboot run a dx9 or OpenGL based game and play for hours on end, THEN skinning support should be considered. Right now we still have graphical corruption just from our CURRENT windows classic look.
I am not really talking about the GUI.