Hi Erik,
Although I admit I am a newbie, I do know the differences between skin objects, containers, skins and modules.
What I ultimatly want to do is to let my client select a page template or skin and the Housemenu is already setup with the appropriate settings. I don't want the client to have to start editing module Settings or to have to remember to copy modules from one page to another.
So I have created a skin which contains the HouseMenu skin object, which worked great until I noticed that the Housemenu was not working properly in IE, a CSS layering problem.
However if I used the Housemenu Module in a container the CSS layering problem went away, hence my original question about defining a container in the skin.
So the Page Template option seems to provide me with what I need, so perhaps I can abandon the Skin idea, except.......I need to be able to define the Housemenu module settings.
Clear as mud.
Tony