I installed Bootskin on my widescreen desktop for the development and previewing part of the process... and threw this thing together, got it looking beautiful.
I dont know. There is more than 1 way to apply a boot skin. I am just going by what i read. I can not comment on why you would use it for development and previewing and not implementatoin. Because i am not you. I have seen wierder things done. People just done like having 3rd party applications like that installed so they hack XP to apply the boot skins natively.
Maybe next time when someone asks a simple question you can answer it nicely and avoid this long drawn out arguement.