Well, I concluded the Skype-In experiment. My screen was dimmed (blanked) when I made the incoming call to Skype from my cellular phone. The N800 screen illuminated without being touched (this is good), I answered the incoming call on the N800 in the normal manner, talked to myself, and hung-up the cell phone. The N800 screen did dim as it should, on it's own.

So, it seems the Skype / dimming bug is isolated to Skype-Out functionality. The Skype-to-Skype and Skype-In functions do not crash the N800 display auto dimmer. Furthermore, Skype Chat functions in and out do not seem to disturb the N800 auto dimmer. Looks to be a Skype-Out issue only.

Regards,
M5