You can use the switcheroo.ascx script to load any skin. Instead of just passing a filename, which causes the file to be loaded from the current folder, you can give it a path. Something like "~/Portals/_default/Skins/DNN-Red/Horizontal Menu - Fixed Width.ascx" will do the trick.

The LoadControl method used in the script will load any user control as long as it is within the same application.

Nik

You should be able to switch containers in the same way unless the container is hard-coded in the skin. I haven't tried this out, but I am fairly confident it will work the same way. Another approach you can take is to just create a simple <div> tag with the required ContentPane Id in the container, but have the overall appearance dictated by another user control that is included in the container. Let me know how your experimentation goes...if you can't get it to work, I'll write-up a quick example.

Nik