I have been having a headache with a skin I built.

2 issues;

1. When I select any of the pages I created, the control panel does not display but does for admin and host pages.

2. The pane titles do not display and the dotted borders. They did for a bit when I added 'runat=server' to the pane TD's  and now do not display again.

I am editing the skin ascx file directly on the server but it seems that something is not getting updated (DB?) when I make changes to the ascx.

Here is the ascx source: 

<%@ Control language="vb" CodeBehind="~/admin/Skins/skin.vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LOGO" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Logo.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="BANNER" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Banner.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="NAV" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Nav.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="SEARCH" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Search.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LANGUAGE" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Language.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="CURRENTDATE" Src="~/Admin/Skins/CurrentDate.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="BREADCRUMB" Src="~/Admin/Skins/BreadCrumb.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="USER" Src="~/Admin/Skins/User.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LOGIN" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Login.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="COPYRIGHT" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Copyright.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TERMS" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Terms.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="PRIVACY" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Privacy.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="DOTNETNUKE" Src="~/Admin/Skins/DotNetNuke.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="SOLPARTMENU" Src="~/Admin/Skins/SolPartMenu.ascx" %>

<link href="<%=skinpath%>sarvac3.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<TABLE width="770" border="0" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<TR>
<TD id="ControlPanel" runat="server" class="contentpane" colspan="2" valign="top" align="center"></TD>
</TR>
<!--Login Row-->
<tr>
<TD></TD>
<td align="right">
         <dnn:USER runat="server" id="dnnUSER" cssclass="Currentuser" />
         <span style="padding-left:6px;padding-right:6px"> | </span>
         <dnn:LOGIN cssclass="Register" runat="server" id="dnnLOGIN" /></td>
</tr>

<!--Header Search and Rescue row-->
<tr>
<td ALIGN="LEFT">
   <dnn:LOGO runat="server" id="dnnLOGO" BorderWidth="0" /></td>
<td align="left" HEIGHT="57">
    <img src="<%=skinpath%>images/sarvac3_1x1_1x3.jpg" border="0" width="166" height="57" /></td>
</tr>

<!--Header PIX row-->
<tr>
<td HEIGHT="100">
    <img src="<%=skinpath%>images/sarvac3_1x1_2x1.jpg" width="641" height="100" border="0" /></td>
<td HEIGHT="100" align="left" style="background-image: url('(<%=skinpath%>images/blue.gif'); background-repeat: repeat-x">
 <img src="<%=skinpath%>images/sarvac3_1x1_2x2.jpg" border="0" width="166" height="100" /></td>

</tr>
<!--menu row-->

<tr>
<td class="hdot">

<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="left"><img border="0" src="<%=skinpath%>images/menu.gif" width="150" height="25" /></td>
<td align="left">Search:
<dnn:SEARCH cssclass="SearchBox" runat="server" id="dnnSEARCH" Submit="Go" showSite="false" showWeb="false"/>
</td>
<td align="right">
       <!--top menu-->
      <span class="TopMenu">
      | <a href="index.htm" class="TopMenuLinks">Home</a>|<a href="sitemap.htm" class="TopMenuLinks">Site
      Map</a>|<a href="fr/index.htm" class="TopMenuLinks">Fran&ccedil;ais</a>|</span>
 <!--/ top menu-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
   

</td>
<!--right cell-->
<TD><img name="sarvac3_1x18" src="<%=skinpath%>images/sarvac3_1x1_3x4.jpg" width="166" height="40" border="0" align="top" /></TD>
</tr>
<tr>
<!--CONTENT TABLE cell-->
<td colspan="2">
<TABLE align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
 <!--start content-->    
    <tr>
    <td runat="server" ID="LeftPane" align="left" class="leftpane" valign="top">
<img src="<%=skinpath%>images/spacer.gif" height="1" border="0" width="160" />
<dnn:SOLPARTMENU
    runat="server"
    id="dnnSOLPARTMENU"
    separatecss="False"
    backcolor="#FFFFFF"
    forecolor="#666666"
    selectedbordercolor="#999999"
    selectedcolor="#999999"
    selectedforecolor="#0066FF"
    display="vertical"
    menubarheight="200"
    menuborderwidth="0"
    menuitemheight="20"
    fontnames="Arial"
    fontsize="8" />
  </td>
    <td runat="server" ID="ContentPane" align="center" class="ContentPane" valign="top">&nbsp;
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td runat="server" ID="BottomPane" align="center" class="leftBottomPane" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
  <td runat="server" ID="BottomPane2" align="center" class="LowerContentPane" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr align="right">
  <td colspan="2" id="CopyrightPane" align="right" valign="top" class="CopyrightPane" runat="server">
</td>
</tr>

<tr bgcolor="#6284AA">
  <td colspan="2" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>

</table>
<!--end content-->     
</td>
</tr>
</table>

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That did it.

Weird thing is that that is the first thing I thought of and tried it but with no luck.

Now it worked but at first, I put the entire pane table where the original one was and it did not work.

Then I removed the solpartmenu tag and it worked, then still worked after I put the menu back.

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