[haxen]

wow, u are close, are your skins files in that last directoy exactly as the error message calls for?

OK, I am logged in here with my PS3, and here is the setup:

say u downloaded the Blue theme, you want to unpack or unzip the tar into the

usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/ directory

OK, so you extract the skin files into the default directory, not a skins diirectory.

You can dl other skins and put them in the usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ directory in their own folders and just point gmplayer to that new skin directory after it opens, instead of the default skin. I have 3 skins, 1 is in the default directory and the other two are in their own directories that i named and created, all 3 of these folders are in the skins directory. I like the dushku skin and the blue skin.