I build my first skin but made the mistake of taking a really complext html/css/javascript template and converting that to a skin.

Working now fine, with a few issues.

For time being the skin are only applied to a single page where I placed a module who's controls implements the styles from my skin.

All fine however:
* The module require me to have a logged in user.  I check in the module if that's true and if not, redirect the user to the login page.
   In this case, the skin style are applied to my login page (making it look really weird)
    I guess it won't be an issue when the skin have all it's bits and pieces together ,but for time being that's an issue.

Also, if logged in as Admin or Host the top control bar included renders all weird.  Once again my style seems to get applied there as well.  :-(

You are right one with your guess. Awesome theme from themeforest (which served me just great with asp.net mvc till date,since it give you full control over your markup).
Would have done it differently knowing what I know now, but can't start over (boss will blow a gasket).

Thanks for both tips, busy with that now.

This new login page. Is there any way I could use a returnurl with it?

Gotcha.
Can't recall how I did it, but adding the login page on my local dnn site did not redirect.
However when I added it to our production site, it works as you said.

Using oliverhine.com controlpanel now...works great.

Now just for that installation packages...nightmare on it's own.