I really wish this was more user friendly. So here's what I did:
- Went to addons central and downloaded a skin
- went to programs folder, to downloaded skin
- it only had a default file and a skin.bin file
- i placed the icons there as well as in an images folder i created. I wasn't sure about this but all the readme's sounded like there should be more in the folders
- deleted the skin.bin
- exited ootp
- launched ootp in admin mode
- the skin that loaded was one of the other ones i downloaded
- attempted to change to the skin with the custom icons
- ootp goes black