I'd certainly be in favour of some alternate skin choices. I just bought a couple for a vbulletin site that I'm putting together on an unrelated subject.

There are quite a few vb skin sites around. They don't usually cost very much and the site I bought mine from even helped me install them (I'm a bit of a VB virgin). They also had a buy one get one free option which meant that I got two layouts for my money.