I just sent HiTech a PM about the issue and a request for another adoption of a skin in limbo, so to speak.
I think the issue has to do with the fact that HiTech simply changed ownership of the requested skins to us from Larry/Truekill. We did not adopt it through the normal method. We simply updated the skin from our roster of skins.
I suggested that in the future, he could simply add requested skins to the list of skins available for adoption. We would then adopt them as normal.