Getting Started.. Lost as hell

[sanitysama]

I've decided to make a modern winamp skin. I'm looking at the xml code and changing parts of it but it's just not coming together or making any sense. I've started by looking at code, what image is affiliated to it, then changing the image and trying to move it around. Why did they make the modern skin so complicated? I'm trying to use it as a base to get started but there's way too many elements. What kind of elitist coded this expecting people to be able to modify it with ease?

Complaints and grievances aside, I was wondering where the rest of you started.


..and why isn't there some kind of skin editing program for the modern skin yet?