baldwisa-- If you have gotten an e-mail telling you to stop practicing a certain skill, I believe you should go to zero. There is some divided opinion; there are a few holdouts who say you should still keep some minutes there, and there are others who think there are different "types" of messages that sometimes indicate that a skill is merely almost maxed out but not quite there yet. But for myself, whenever I've gotten an e-mail indicating any kind of maxout in any skill, I have always set it to zero and have never experienced a single point of skill decrease after doing so.