Hi ell since 4.9 there is a special skinobject, all the code on the page is just for doctype and removing the portal and default.css for non admin users so that I dont have to override skinobject or normal or .Head classes that used to mess up designs.

its this one in the header

<%@ Register Src="~/Admin/Skins/Styles.ascx" TagName="STYLES" TagPrefix="dnn" %>

and this one at the bottom of the skin

 <dnn:STYLES runat="server" id="StylesIE"  Name="IE6Up" StyleSheet="ie.css" Condition="GTE IE 6" UseSkinPath="true" />
 

As you can see its very easy you give the stylesheet and the condition  and its gets rendered in the head as a conditional comment block

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Hi

Just checked out the code and looks liek you can have it the way you descrbed, it just makes 3 conditional commet blocks then. If you dont have 4.9 you could get the code from admin/skins and rebuild it as a simpel standalone skinobject

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mm you could try and copy the ascx and the ascx.vb and see if that is recognized and will compile when you refresh the app on demand but no guarantees.

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