i have a problem with my evox dashboards skins. any time i go and select a skin it shows up and works fine until i go into a game or turn of the system. then it resets to the orginal skin. it will not save or keep the the skin. please help

Is the skin saved to your xbox hd?

yes, and at first they worked. maybe the first week or two. had the xbox for about 14 months now and wish i could get a skin to stick.

anyone have any clues as to what the h@ll is wrong with my box
???

Clueless. That means that your .ini isn't saving your selection. Check your evox.ini file and see if it's being altered at all.

copy your ini file
change your skin
copy your ini file again
compare the two.

I don't know why this would happen in Evox. If this happened in UX, I'd say it was because there were two skin paths in your config file. Well, if you don't mind going through the trouble, backup everything you think you'll ever want to keep, use Slayer's 2.6 to format your drive and reinstall EvoX. Then just FTP all of the stuff you backed up onto your Xbox. It'll take a little while, but after 13 ½ months of aggravation, I'm sure you won't might investing another hour into it to get your skins functioning properly.