After further poking around, it appears that I need to "tell" SimPE where to go (so to speak) to load custom Skin Tones & such.
Instructions are here...
http://simpeforum.ambertation.de/sim...mPEs-FileTable
...but I may not have much time before work to try it out just yet.
Will report back with more info...
-ZW
Oh, a Google search turned up a Hullabalo link:
http://hullabaloo.sunsims.com/forum/...1513eb7186412b
*** UPDATE ***
Well it works! By that I mean I have successfully set up SimPE to load my custom Skin Tones into the Sims Surgery thingy.
On the "down" side, it's hard to tell several of the skins apart on those little bitty thumbnails & since many of the custom skins show the same "name" (CASIE_tmtopnaked_nudecut_s2) I'm not sure how to be sure which skin I am choosing in some cases!
On the "up" side, so far nobody has "reused" the names of the Maxis default skins, so at least I know which skins
not to use!