int eh box that says name i put kiss. because its a picutre of gene simmons. then in commnet box i put its great. and then in the description box i put gene simmons in concert. then in the primary box i selected the tpoic music. then i didn't select anyhting in teh secondary box or the tertiary box. then i clcik browse adn select teh picture named gene2 adn it comes up in teh box as C:\WINDOWS\Profiles\SPAWN000\Desktop\A'S stuff\gene2.jpg hten i click the publish botton adn i get an error message saying ERROR The component file you have uploaded is not a valid skin archive. what do i do now

hmmm hate to break your bubble there, but uploading .jpg files isnt what winamp is all about man, first of all u need to take that pic of Gene, and carefully wrap it around a winamp interface, carefully place the buttons, sliders and other components on top,alongside and around the picture.

Then carefully cut up the picture into winamp skin sized bites, zip them all up on a .zip file, or .wsz, check for bugs and then finaly submit that .zip/.wsz to winamp.com.

Simply submitting a picture won't work, gotta skin it first.
For more information on skinning winamp, please look HERE it will tell you all you need to know about wrapping gene onto winamp!
Back to the day job :)