Themes/Skins vs CSS

Hi there, I'm relatively new to asp.net and have a few questions with regards to
using Themes/Skins over CSS

I'm a web designer, who has just started a new company, and my 1st assignment is
to create a site using themes/skins and masterpages. I don't have a problem with
the masterpages, however, i see little value in using themes/skins because of
the following:

Skins generate inline styles, which wont validate as XHTML Strict. Also bloats
up the HTML.
Themes tend to re-organise the loading order of your style sheets, therfore
potentially throwing up some issues for my Conditional Comments.
Themes also strips out the media attribute from my stylesheet links, therfore
ignoring my 'printer friendly' CSS

Can anyone therefore explain to me the benefits of using Themes over CSS?

Thanks

Hi,

you can use CSS in your theme also and in your skin set the CssClass (which
points to the class in your CSS file).

Grz, Kris.