when you export XML for another skin, and use it, it doubles up all the code basically. So my footer was reading
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There's two ways to prevent this.
1. When exporting the skin uncheck the boxes to export the Headers/Footers or 2. When importing the skin check the box to replace existing Headers/Footers.