i discovered this by using text comparison software on my own edit to the original i was working off of.
it was a setting i changed, not know what it did. i broke my own skin. lol, so i changed it back and presto!
i have never skinned with xml before so i was shooting in the dark. took about 3 weeks to put one together. and i probably missed some other elements too.
i still dont know what more than half of the settings in the bottom of the xml do really, without hunting each on down on the forum here.