I would not edit in the skinobject that would not allow you to upgrde easily because it would be written over.

I would go for the javscript option in the skin, this is done by heart so you should double check and make sure your texbox has the same class

<script type="text/javascript">
     $(document).ready(function(){
       $(".SearchTextBox").focus(function(event){
$('this').val('');

       });
     });
     
   </script>

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