Hi Barry,
I am using version 9.18 of eTouch the skin tool is saying 9.17, at the top of the forum it still says 9.16 as current version so you might want to change those.
Right on to the bug. It is a recurring bug you click on skin tool and click on cancel to create a new skin. A box comes up with the skins in the skins folder, and although you click on new skin it does nothing and the only way that you can get out of it is by loading a skin that you do not want, e.g I want blank files rather than loading up a skin to which I don't want to edit.
I just done a quick video to show you what happens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5p9mgasM0&feature=youtu.be (47 seconds)
Regards
Mark
Bug fixed, grab the updated skintool 9.0.18 from the V9 releases section.