Magento looking at base before custom theme

Question

I bought a theme for Magento and changed some css. Recently the theme updated to the new my_theme/default file path (it used to be using the default/my_theme). I am trying to create a custom theme so that when I update the theme it won't interfere with my custom changes.

I set the current package name to "my_theme" and set default (under Design/Themes) to custom_theme. And saved everything. I also disabled and flushed all the caches. It still reads from skin/frontend/default/my_theme/css/styles.css when it should skin/frontend/my_theme/default/css/styles.css

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

FIXED IT!

The issue was not in System > Configuration > Design but in fact System > Design I discovered that System > Design had it set up for Default/Shopper and there wasn't a time frame for it. The following link helped me reach my conclusion.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/197908/

You are supposed to System > Design for temporary theme changes, but my site had it set with no time frame thus always overwriting my settings in System > Configuration > Design

Answer 2

There is also scope configuration in back end to check to which store you have to apply your design changes

just check with upper left side drop down to effect on your magento setup to give default or your custom package.

hope this will sure help you.