diff --git a/embed/controls.js b/embed/controls.js
index cec629de..42e2ff28 100644
--- a/embed/controls.js
+++ b/embed/controls.js
@@ -93,14 +93,20 @@ function MistUI(MistVideo,structure) {
   
   //apply skin CSS
   var uid = MistUtil.createUnique();
-  var toload = MistVideo.skin.css.length;
-  if (toload) { container.style.opacity = "0"; }
+  var loaded = 0;
+  if (MistVideo.skin.css.length) { container.style.opacity = 0; }
   for (var i in MistVideo.skin.css) {
     var style = MistVideo.skin.css[i];
     style.callback = function(css) {
-      this.textContent = MistUtil.css.prependClass(css,uid,true);
-      toload--;
-      if (toload <= 0) {
+      if (css == "/*Failed to load*/") {
+        this.textContent = css;
+        MistVideo.showError("Failed to load CSS from "+this.getAttribute("data-source"));
+      }
+      else {
+        this.textContent = MistUtil.css.prependClass(css,uid,true);
+      }
+      loaded++;
+      if (MistVideo.skin.css.length <= loaded) {
         container.style.opacity = "";
       }
     };
diff --git a/embed/skins.js b/embed/skins.js
index 92304a74..e75ddd28 100644
--- a/embed/skins.js
+++ b/embed/skins.js
@@ -418,7 +418,9 @@ MistSkins["default"] = {
                       //remove all the things when unmuted
                       var fu = function(){
                         if (!MistVideo.video.muted) {
-                          MistVideo.container.removeChild(largeMutedButton);
+                          if (largeMutedButton.parentNode) {
+                            MistVideo.container.removeChild(largeMutedButton);
+                          }
                           MistVideo.video.removeEventListener("volumechange",fu);
                           document.body.removeEventListener("click",i);
                           MistVideo.video.removeEventListener("mouseenter",f);
@@ -2621,10 +2623,10 @@ function MistSkin(MistVideo) {
   
   //load css
   var styles = [];
-  var toload = 0;
   for (var i in this.css) {
     if (typeof this.css[i] == "string") {
-      styles.push(MistUtil.css.load(MistVideo.urlappend(this.css[i]),this.colors));
+      var a = MistUtil.css.load(MistVideo.urlappend(this.css[i]),this.colors);
+      styles.push(a);
     }
   }
   this.css = styles; //overwrite 
diff --git a/embed/util.js b/embed/util.js
index 3a9d8011..ac6ffd6e 100644
--- a/embed/util.js
+++ b/embed/util.js
@@ -363,9 +363,7 @@ var MistUtil = {
           callback(xhr.response);
         }
         else if (errorCallback) {
-          xhr.onerror = function() {
-            errorCallback(xhr);
-          }
+          errorCallback(xhr);
         }
       };
       if (errorCallback) {
@@ -461,7 +459,12 @@ var MistUtil = {
           }
           cache[url] = d;
         },function(){
-          throw "Failed to load CSS from "+url;
+          var d = "/*Failed to load*/";
+          for (var i in cache[url]) {
+            cache[url][i](d);
+          }
+          cache[url] = d;
+          
         });
       }