weird web control behavior in visual studio with masterpages skins ???

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Please help.

I add a formview to web form and set it to datasource that's doing a
select from a view. Why would the wizard give NOT me the option to edit
templates?

I'm using a template skin (winxp_silver) and I have a masterpage,
custom control and webpart.

Most of my pages and controls give me an error (error rendering
control) complaining that the skinid is invalid, when in fact it it's
there and does render at run time.


my skinfile has no directive

my default.master:

<%@ Register Src="usercontrols/menuWinXPThemes.ascx"
TagName="menuWinXPThemes" TagPrefix="uc2" %>

The usercontrol is located under ~usercontrols/:

<%@ Control Language="VB" ClassName="menuWinXPThemes" %>

<%@ Implements Interface="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.IWebPart"
%>