Hmmm

got it and tried it, no joy! What a spacker.
Could not get it to work........
Created the skinswap folder in the www root, the instructions said xcart root but my site does not have that, here were the instructions.
1. Make a backup copy of xcart/smarty.php just incase.
DID
2. Login to your admin area of your X-cart and apply the SQL patch found
in this archive entitled "skinswap.sql".
DID
3. Create a subdirectory entitled "skin_swap" in the root installation of
your x-cart. (default is xcart/) This will be your skin repository.
DID IN WWW ROOT
4. Copy your existing skin1/ directory into the newly created "skin_swap".
So you have a directory structure like so:
DID
|-> xcart (or root)
|-> skin_swap
|-> skin1
5. Copy the file "smarty.php" from this archive over your existing xcart
smarty.php file replacing its contents in its entirety. NOTE: If you
are using 4.0.x version of X-Cart use the file "smarty.php.4.0"
instead.
DID AND RENAMED SMARTY.PHP.4.0 TO SMARTY.PHP INSTEAD
6. Now you are ready to start swapping, please read the details below
for a detail description on how the skin swap system works and is
setup!
DID NOT WORK