Help with turntable tone arm skidding across record.?

A turntable? how quaint...really, that's great! you might like to try the counterbalance at the other end of the stylus - generally they move forward and backward to act as a cantilever to the stylus. Too far out and it will tend to lift the stylus up and that will create a skipping across the record. Move it towards the center which should place the stylus more firmly into the groove.