Add profile, can’t add skins that already exist?

Kodi 17.1, on Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS.

I have been trying some of the skins out, nothing really strange.. Transparancy, etc.
So last night I add a new user profile.

I go to my “gear” icon up in the default Estuary skin, to hit an exit or logout, etc. And as soon as I pick the menu, it turns off. Sometimes it takes a second, but if it gets selected, it just disappears in a half second later. I think that is odd.. Wonder if its some of the lock settings on the menu.. nope can’t see anything. I figure I will work around the problem by creating a logout on the home menu.

So I go to the the appearance section, and it shows me only the default 2 skins on this user. I click on the “get more” button, and skins pop up.. but only the skins _not_ already installed by master user. Now I’m really confused, because this does not seem normal at all.

Anyone seen this problem?