Help! New TT skipping badly....

With springs it is essential to tune in order to match the load to the springs. If they are too stiff they won't isolate much, and that may be what is going on here. Looking at what you've got to play with, I would try springs under the 3" thick butcher block, with the turntable on top of that. Add or remove springs until they are compressed about half way under load. When properly loaded, when you give the whole thing a push it should bounce or oscillate fairly slowly. In addition to adding/subtracting springs you can also weight the shelf, with anything such as a bag of sugar being fine for a test.  

As good as Nobsound work, one of their bigger shortcomings besides lack of damping is they really only isolate best up and down. Because of the number of springs and the way they are arranged they have a lot of stiffness side to side and in other planes than vertical. Without being there it is hard to know but you may have a situation where the rack is rocking front to back or something like that more so than up and down. If that is the case you can get better by tuning Nobsound but the real solution will be Townshend Pods or Platform, those isolate equally in all planes. 

Clearthink, I owned two LP 12s and they are anything but stable. Let me see if I can explain this to you so you can understand it. The Linn and the AR sub chassis to which the platter and the tonearm are mounted sit ON TOP of three springs. If you put a mass on top of a spring and give it a push what happens. Now what happens if I increase the size of the mass? Eventually the spring will not recover at all and will remain bent over. The Sota, SME and early Basis turntables hang the sub chassis from the springs. Increasing the mass will lower the resonance frequency of the suspension and stretch the springs a little more but the springs will never bend over. They will always come to rest in the same position. They are laterally stable. The suspensions on the Linn and AR are not laterally stable. They are easy to upset. Sota started with three springs but found that four springs worked better as did SME and Basis. 

 Thanks MC, that is how I have it set up, springs under maple block.According to Nobsound 4 springs should handle 70 lbs. and Im at about 58-60. Probably going to bail on this and go back to my other table, don't think this Scout is a good match for my room.  Again, thanks for all that offered help.

Any time. VPI must be frustrating after the way it worked with CA and Rega. Would be curious to know if Pods would take care of it. I know the sound will improve, a lot, but would it eliminate this devil of a problem? So bad it almost makes me wonder if there is something wrong with that table. It is used you know?

 table was thoroughly gone over and set up by very respected analog guy. Pretty sure the table is ok. Arm not meant for my domicile....