I had asked USRanger once about the default skins. His answer made a lot of sense, especially with the magnificent job he does with details.
The files for the default skin have to included in with the terrain files, therefore taking up addition space. He had rather use that space to build the terrain. It would be awesome if we could control such a thing but, unless everyone has the skin or it is a part of the terrain, that is the only way to achieve it.
Shifty, nice catch. I was wondering, since daddog had been playing with the no enemy icons, what were the icon settings for the FSO?