I've made a skin, how do I make it not a replacement texture?

[FedoFrog]

It is currently replacing textures I was wondering how I can make it a standalone skin.

[Lukeman]

Make sure the filename doesn't match any existing skin. Also make sure you haven't edited the original skin and overwritten it.
The format is:

{Mesh name}{Skin tone}_{Skin name}.bmp

Skin tones are: lgt, med, drk. To change the name, you'll want to change the part after the underscore. For example:

B004MAFatlgt_Sleuth.bmp

Rename this to

B004MAFatlgt_Whatever.bmp

[FedoFrog]

I have overwritten the skin however I have the files still, so I can just change the file name and it should work even though the mesh is physically the same?

[Lukeman]

Yes, same mesh can have multiple different skins as long as the textures have different names.