do u need different installers for the different types of themes?

nope, omar's installer 3.0.1 can install both ots1 and ots2 compliant themes

you may even be able to apply the LSDistro patch to make themes OTS1 compliant to get them into the new installer.

i dont think so, those themes are recognized as ots by the theme installer :/
i tried to update it, but i had to make changes in the personal.rc. i think i still have it somewhere if someone is interested and wants to make it work. you'd have to manually create a _compatibility_patch.rc for every lsd theme tho.

nah...you could do it manually...wouldn't be to hard...but yah the installer may puke.