Here is something interesting: I had moved oldskin.bin out of ootp 16 to the skins root folder to allow the game to rebuild skin.bin under ootp 16, and not only is there absolutely no skin.bin in the ootp 16 folder, but when I go to change the current skin, I get this:
I'm sure it's because I moved it to the root folder, but there's your proof I did what I said I did, anyway.