I have figured out most of how to build these skins but a few things still escape me.  For instance, I have [USER] and [LOGIN] on my main skin but I can't figure out how to control the styles that govern them.  What do I have to do to the xml file?

I believe they use the SkinObject class.

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I don't know if you've solved this yet, but here is what I have figured out.


I define a style to be applied to those tokens in my SKIN.XML file

    <!-- Class for the login control -->

        <Token>[LOGIN]</Token>

            <Settings>
                <Setting>
                    <Name>CssClass</Name>
                <Value>UserStyle</Value>
            </Setting>
        </Settings>

    </Object>

    <!-- Class for the USER control -->
    <Object>
        <Token>[USER]</Token>
            <Settings>
                <Setting>
                    <Name>CssClass</Name>
                    <Value>UserStyle</Value>
                </Setting>
            </Settings>
    </Object>

(I do skins in HTML, if you use Vis Studio or Express, you enter the style directly as a property I think)

Then in your style sheet:

/* style for User and Login tokens */

.userstyle {
    color:#000000;
    font-size: 80%;
    font-weight: normal;}
a.userstyle:link, a.luserstyle:visited, a.userstyle:active {
	color: #0D3257;
	font-style:normal;
	font-weight: normal;
 	text-decoration: none;}
a.userstyle:hover {color:#0D3257; text-decoration:underline;}